Autor: Tim Strehle

Michael Lopp interviewed by Mac Slocum at O’Reilly Radar – Geeks at work: „Leadership is really interesting to folks, inspiring people and being strategic. But those first two, organization and communication, sometimes turn into power trips for a lot of managers. They use information as a weapon. That is a huge violation to the geek…

„The Adobe Drive 2 Connect UI is an easy-to-use interface that allows users to connect to a Digital Asset Management (DAM) server. Once you are connected, Adobe Drive 2 offers simple, intuitive access to remote assets through the platform file browsers, platform dialogs such as Open and Save, Adobe Bridge, and directly from the menus…

Kevin Kelly at Wired – Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything: „On the design of a beach vacation home, the limitation may be your ocean-front footage. You have to make sure your whole team understands what scarce resource you’re optimizing. […] Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid camera, once said that his…

Jason Cohen – Yes, but who said they’d actually BUY the damn thing?: „In a big software project do you tackle the high-risk, ill-defined stuff first, or do you postpone that to the end? Obviously you address the unpredictable stuff first — most of the project risk is due to the unknown, so the earlier…

Alan Pelz-Sharpe at CMS Watch – Document Asset Management?: „I would like to see us all think more clearly about what is worth managing, and more clearly delineating between junk and stuff that actually has business value. In a broad sense, all information management activities be they related to web, e-mail, records, or documents should…

Pretty Good Semantics

Paul Graham – The Acceleration of Addictiveness: „One sense of „normal“ is statistically normal: what everyone else does. The other is the sense we mean when we talk about the normal operating range of a piece of machinery: what works best. […] Most people I know have problems with Internet addiction. We’re all trying to…

Paul Graham – The Top Idea in Your Mind: „I realized recently that what one thinks about in the shower in the morning is more important than I’d thought. I knew it was a good time to have ideas. Now I’d go further: now I’d say it’s hard to do a really good job on…

Scott Adams – The Amazingness of Instant: „I’ve discovered that 90% of its usefulness comes from the fact that it’s speedy. Yesterday a fox walked by the window, and I was the only witness. Someone asked what type it was, and I was able to point to a picture on the iPad in less than…

Gartner RAS Core Research Note at Adobe.com – HTML5 and the Future of Adobe Flash [PDF]: „The root causes for a suboptimal user experience consist of lack of appropriate process and governance, and lack of a genuine commitment to a quality user experience. Such a commitment would lead organizations to adopt a user-centered, usability-oriented development…