Autor: Tim Strehle

Steve Yegge back in 2006 – (Not) Managing Software Developers: „I think the best managers don’t want to manage: they want to lead. In fact most leaders probably don’t think about it much, at least at first, because they’re too busy leading: rushing headlong towards a goal and leading everyone around them in that direction,…

William Kent back in 1988 – The Many Forms of a Single Fact: „There is an underlying fallacy, namely the assumption that a simple binary fact (relationship or attribute) always maps simply into a pair of fields. While that is the foundation of current data design methodologies, there exist a troublesome number of exceptions in…

Michal Zalewski – HTTP cookies, or how not to design protocols: „There is simply no accurate, offcial account of cookie behavior in modern browsers; the two relevant RFCs, often cited by people arguing on the Internet, are completely out of touch with reality. This forces developers to discover compatible behaviors by trial and error –…

Todd Hoff at High Scalability – NoSQL Took Away The Relational Model And Gave Nothing Back: „With NoSQL all relationships have been pushed back onto the poor programmer to implement in code rather than the database managing it. We’ve sacrificed usability. NoSQL is about concurrency, latency, and scalability, but it’s not about data.“

Joel Spolsky, back in 2001 – Human Task Switches Considered Harmful: „I feel like when I have two programming projects on my plate at once, the task switch time is something like 6 hours. In an 8-hour day, that means multitasking reduces my productivity to 2 hours per day. Pretty dismal. As it turns out,…

Signal vs. Noise – Nordstrom’s Employee Handbook — short and sweet: „Rule #1: Use best judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules.“

Seth Godin – Organizing for joy: „The alternative, it seems, is to organize for joy. These are the companies that give their people the freedom (and yes, the expectation) that they will create, connect and surprise. These are the organizations that embrace someone who makes a difference, as opposed to searching for a clause in…

Tony Byrne at the Real Story Group blog – Beware big vendors if you care about viability: „Two decades and much gray hair later, I’ve come to the conclusion that the very biggest vendors can actually carry the highest risks in terms of product continuity. IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, EMC, Google, and SAP aren’t going to…

Alex Williams at ReadWriteEnterprise on a Lucene Revolution presentation of IDC senior analyst Hadley Reynolds – A Search Market Craters – Welcome to the App Diaspora: „After the collapse of the economy two years ago, a market force took effect that has led to the „cratering,“ of a small but telling sector of the enterprise…

Pingdom – REST in peace, SOAP: „Looks like the tide of the web API protocol war (if there ever was one) has shifted firmly in REST’s favor while SOAP has been forced back. Web developers have cast their votes, they want RESTful APIs.“ (Via Tim Bray.)