Autor: Tim Strehle

all things cataloged – Data, not records: „Cataloging huge amounts of 19th century material, I often wonder: what if users had a link to the year of publication (e.g. from Wikipedia) that could provide some background information about what happened that year and could assist them in understanding the historical situation and the context a…

Eric Ries – The visionary’s lament: „Don’t try and change the vision every time you get new data. Instead, get out of the building and look for customers for whom your product vision is a slam-dunk fit. […] Identify an acute pain point that others don’t see. It’s important to specify the vision as much…

Intermittent Intelligence – You’re a developer, so why do you work for someone else?: „Never in modern history has it been so easy to create something from scratch, with little or no capital and a marketing model that is limited only by your imagination. […] In the evening, when the kids have gone to bed…

Stijn Debrouwere – We’re in the information business: „The goal is to make our content management system like a miniature world in a snowglobe. Not just a system that publishes text, but a system that talks like we do: it knows that an interview implies one or more interviewees. […] An issue is more than…

Steve Radick at Enterprise 2.0 – Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You’re Creating?: „You gain trust and respect because they know that you’re dealing with the same issues they are. You’re struggling to access the site on your phone too. You’re not getting the alerts you signed up for either. You’re…

Andrew Stellman at O’Reilly Broadcast – Why project managers should care about development: „I’ve spent a lot of time over the years training project managers, and one thing I’ve heard from many of them is that a good project manager can manage anything. In other words, a project manager doesn’t need to know anything about…

James Gosling on Oracle – Some more comments…: „It’s not so much that the game favors evil, but that the definition of „good“ is really twisted: Good adj: anything which increases the stock price. Considerations about employees, products, customers and community are all secondary. They only enter the equation as ways to achieve goal 1.…

Michael Hunger – On LEGO Powered Time-Tracking; My Daily Column: „As a child I hated these one-rowers as they were not useful in building stuff. But here and now they seemed a perfect fit. Small enough and in the right sizes. I chose a time partitioning of a quarter of an hour. So I can…

Adriaan Bloem at CMS Watch – What Exactly is IDOL, Anyway?: „But unfortunately, quite a few of Autonomy’s other customers weren’t quite prepared for it, and ended up unhappy with what they bought. Of course, it’s tempting to blame the vendor’s marketing and salesforce for this; but that’s a bit like accusing a tiger of…

Aaron Newton – How to Become a JavaScript Badass: „Release some of your own code. […] I almost consider it a red flag to see a resume without a url to github or something similar. […] If you blog constantly about what you are doing, what you are studying, you’ll find that people come to…