Autor: Tim Strehle

GetApp.com – Why SaaS Vendors and Buyers Need to Care About APIs: „Saas vendors should offer open APIs to integrate with other products and make the life of their clients easier and safer. As John Musser, founder of ProgrammableWeb.com, recently said: “Not having an API in 2010 is like not having a web site in…

Seth Godin – Demonstrating strength: „Risking the appearance of weakness takes strength. And the market knows it.“

David Veksler – Some lesser-known truths about programming: „Software rot is unavoidable, but programmers who fail to take conceptual integrity into consideration create software that rots so so fast that it becomes worthless before it is even completed. […] Good programmers think about their work 24/7. They write their most important code in the shower…

Jesus Diaz at Gizmodo – This Is How Much Apple Has Changed In a Decade: „Back then, Steve Jobs preached the new iMac as the center of your digital life, the internet machine. Now, the internet machine fits in your pocket. But with sixteen times the memory, eight times the storage, and more than double…

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…