Autor: Tim Strehle

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…

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…

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