Autor: Tim Strehle

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,…

Grant Ingersoll – Apache Solr 1.4.0 Offically Released: „New Solr 1.4 features include – Major performance enhancements in indexing, searching, and faceting – Revamped all-Java index replication that’s simple to configure and can replicate config files – […] Dynamic search results clustering via Carrot2 – Multi-select faceting (support for multiple items in a single category…

Joel Spolsky at Inc. – Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death?: „You worked hard to build your business; you’re counting on it for your retirement and your kids‘ college and whatever. But if you’re not taking any risks, you’re pretty much guaranteed to fail. Somewhere, there’s someone out there who is taking more risks than…

Andrew Stellman at Building Better Software – Using nonfunctional requirements to build better software: „One of those senior architects I mentioned gave me a really good tip recently, one that really rings true. He told me, “Always think about performance from day one of your project, and test for it until you deliver.” […] I…

Ajaxian – Fast by Default and Web Performances, on a slide by Steve Souder of Google: „SPEED is the next competitive advantage – use it … before someone else does“

Jason Fried at Inc. – The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals: „In the software world, the first, second, and third versions of any product are really pretty good, because everyone can use them. Then companies start adding more and more stuff to keep their existing customers happy. But you end up dying with…

Mark Sigal at O’Reilly Radar – iPhone Killers, Blackberries and Chicken Parts: „I would submit that my experiences underscore a hard truth in the age of iPhone; namely, that successful device vendors can no longer deliver piecemeal offerings that ‚mostly work.‘ Rather, they have to deliver complete product solutions that work consistently as expected.“