Autor: Tim Strehle

Shalin Shekhar Mangar – Microsoft dropping FAST search for Linux, Unix: „According to a blog post from Microsoft Distinguished Engineer and CTO, FAST Bjørn Olstad, the 2010 products will be the last to have a search core that runs on Linux and UNIX. Being involved in Apache Solr and the newly formed Lucene Connectors Framework…

Matt Linderman on the Apple iPad at Signal vs. Noise – Computers shouldn’t make people feel like idiots: „For those of us surrounded by the minutiae of computers all day, it’s easy to forget there’s a world of people out there who just don’t get it. And it’s not their fault. It’s ours. Apple has…

David Heinemeier Hansson at Signal vs. Noise – It’s not a promise, it’s a guess: „Since nobody likes to be a failure, they’ll indulge in risky behavior to avoid it, like burning the midnight oil and checking in bad code with shanty or no tests. Rushing to meet your estimate promise once or twice might…

Edd Dumbill at O’Reilly Radar – The iPad is real-life social: „After reading one such blog post saying that the iPad was antisocial, because it didn’t have SMS or the ability to run IM in the background, it struck me this was a restricted view of what it means to be social. The iPad is…

Wilson Rothman at Gizmodo – The iPad Is The Gadget We Never Knew We Needed: „The iPad has shortcomings, but they only betray Apple’s caution, just like what happened with iPhone No. 1. Now every 15-year-old kid asks for an iPhone, and the ones that don’t get them get iPod Touches. We can sit here…

Stephen Fry – iPad About: „Like iPhone 1.0 […] iPad 1.0 is still fantastic enough in its own right to be classed as a stunningly exciting object, one that you will want NOW and one that will not be matched this year by any company. […] And being Apple it hasn’t been released without (you…

TWEAK Digital – The 6 hidden costs of running a DAM system: „For some reason, desktop applications are just accepted as-is. DAM software is expected to do everything imaginable and be easily customizable.“

Joel Johnson at Gizmodo – Show and Sell: The Secret to Apple’s Magic: „Consumer audiences have grown wary of nearly a century of predictable sleight-of-hand. We’ve seen too many companies promise us the future, then fail to deliver it. I believe that there are dozens of companies out there with the talent to pull the…

David Heinemeier Hansson at Signal vs. Noise – You can always do less: „Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities. The easiest way to force the insight of what can be lived without is by playing a game of constraints:…

Chris Dixon – The next big thing will start out looking like a toy: „To distinguish toys that are disruptive from toys that will remain just toys, you need to look at products as processes. Obviously, products get better inasmuch as the designer adds features, but this is a relatively weak force. Much more powerful…