Autor: Tim Strehle

Mike Milinkovich – Collaboration Is Just Good Business: „We all collectively waste massive amounts of human and commercial capital by building too much software. The sheer amount of wastefully duplicated effort endemic to the ICT industry is staggering. […] In my view, the future impact of open source on the ICT industry is not simply…

Tom Jackson at the New York Times – Announcing Custom Times Feeds: „About a year ago, we launched the Times Article Search API and the TimesTags API, two systems that allow developers to search our extensive collection of articles and to identify the canonical terms we use to describe them. Together, these APIs provide developers…

Arno Gourdol – MAX 2009: Adobe AIR 2.0 and iPhone support: „At MAX this week we’re showing a preview of AIR 2.0, codenamed Athena. We’ve added tons of cool new features, but first, we’ve worked on reducing the memory and CPU usage for a lot of AIR applications. We’ve also listened to what our developers…

Dan Gillmor at guardian.co.uk – The new rules of news: „Transparency would be a core element of our journalism. One example of many: every print article would have an accompanying box called „Things We Don’t Know,“ a list of questions our journalists couldn’t answer in their reporting. TV and radio stories would mention the key…

Gojko Adzic – The Mythical Customer Problem: „Customer is a role, not a person. Very often it can’t be a single person – a domain expert that should ideally be on site is seldom the executive project sponsor who has the authority to approve cost or change plans. One group of people will know how…

James Turner at O’Reilly Radar – David Hoover’s Top 5 Tips for Apprentices: „Hoover says that most developers have benefited from one or two key people in their career that helped them move along. „For people that had had successful careers, they only point back to one or two people that mentored them for a…

Flax Xapian

Adobe® PDF Library software development kit (SDK)

„Gearman provides a generic application framework to farm out work to other machines or processes that are better suited to do the work. It allows you to do work in parallel, to load balance processing, and to call functions between languages. It can be used in a variety of applications, from high-availability web sites to…

Joel Spolsky – The Duct Tape Programmer: „Zawinski popularized Richard Gabriel’s precept of Worse is Better. A 50%-good solution that people actually have solves more problems and survives longer than a 99% solution that nobody has because it’s in your lab where you’re endlessly polishing the damn thing. Shipping is a feature. A really important…