Autor: Tim Strehle

Tim Bray – Doing It Wrong: „What I’m writing here is the single most important take-away from my Sun years, and it fits in a sentence: The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don’t know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less…

Luke Welling at PHP Advent 2009 – Managing Bob: „Bob notices uptime, how long seemingly minor change requests take to implement, consistency in the UI, crashes, revenue, and conversion rates. He will notice the symptoms of bad code, even if he does not have the knowledge to diagnose the root cause, or the vocabulary to…

James Turner at O’Reilly Radar – The Best and the Worst Tech of the Decade: „SOAP was a particularly egregious failure, because it was sold so heavily as the final solution to the interoperatibility problem. The catch, of course, was that no two vendors implemented the stack quite the same way, with the result that…

Kent Beck at Lessons Learned – What is Lean about the Lean Startup?: „Another basic principle of TPS [the Toyota Production System] is respect for people. One form of respect is not wasting the time of people who are creating new products and services. Another form of respect is inviting customers to be part of…

Derek Sivers – Why I gave away my company to charity: „I get the deeper happiness of knowing the lucky streak I’ve had in my life will benefit tons of people – not just me. I get the pride of knowing I did something irreversibly smart before I could change my mind.“

Derek Sivers – Trust but verify: „But a few devastating times, I found out that I had tried too hard not to micro-manage. I hadn’t managed at all. I had said something once, thought it was understood and agreed, and assumed the best. […] In all of the cases, a simple one-minute verification along the…

Joel Spolsky at Inc. – When and How to Micromanage: „I care. Ryan cares. Our staffs care. The venue manager might care but doesn’t know enough. The AV people he hired? Sometimes, they officially Don’t Care, Don’t Know How to Do Their Job, and Really Just Want to Go on Break. And the minute you…

Danny Sullivan – If Newspapers Were Stores, Would Visitors Be “Worthless” Then?: „Yeah, in an article about how people can’t afford their homes, you show me an ad about buying an “iconic residential masterpiece” in Boca Raton. And when I don’t click on that, because it has nothing to do with my interests, you call…

Gojko Adzic – The danger of releasing too early: „We should prioritise projects to be able to release early something that is genuinely useful, not partial functionality that is useless on its own. If we’re building a car for someone, it makes no sense to ask them to prioritise between breaks or steering in the…

Kas Thomas at CMS Watch – RFI as rich asset: „I proposed a simple expedient: Require screenshots. If a product supports a certain type of functionality via a graphical user interface, the vendor should have no qualms about showing the UI in question, doing the operation in question. It’s one thing to be told „Yes,…