Autor: Tim Strehle

Joshua-Michéle Ross at O’Reilly Radar – Stop Giving the Newspapers Your Advice – They Don’t Need It: „The failure of newspapers is not a failure of imagination or foresight nor is it a failure of individuals. This kind of failure is the hallmark of all institutions in the face of tectonic disruption. Institutions are a…

Stormy Peters – Why you shouldn’t do it all yourself: „If I do it all myself, the GNOME Foundation will always need me. I hope to be part of the GNOME community for a long time but I think you do the best job you can when you work yourself out of a job whether…

Scott Adams – Healthcare: „A confusopoly – a term I concocted several years ago – is any industry that intentionally makes its products and services too complicated for comparison shopping. The best examples of confusopolies are cell phone carriers and insurance companies. And health insurance companies might be the most confusing confusopoly of all. I…

Jettro – Mac OSX using vmware fusion : network is down: „It turns out that Mac OSX sometimes thinks that vmware’s virtual network is down. The following command tells it otherwise. sudo /sbin/ifconfig vmnet8 up“

Adriaan Bloem at CMS Watch – Where did all the HTML editors go?: „By now, all but a few CMS products have thrown in the towel. You can have whatever UI you want, but the editor is likely going to be either TinyMCE or FCKeditor. […] The real consolidation isn’t in products or projects; it’s…

Charles Miller at the Atlassian Developer Blog – Agile Context Switching with „The Disturbed“: „Programmers, the authors proposed, are at their most efficient when they reach a state of ‚flow‘ in which they are able to concentrate fully on a single problem. Any developer will tell you how satisfying it is to be in this…

Gojko Adzic – Software development with hunters and gatherers: „While talking about the value of quick feedback and short iterations, David [Evans] used an analogy which I haven’t heard before and I liked it very much, so I decided to share it on this blog. […] What’s really important in the story is what happens…

Ryan Singer at Signal vs. Noise: „Unimportant things are easier to keep around when they are small.“ Makes me wonder why there’s so much stuff in very small font size in our application’s UI…

Jacob Kaplan-Moss – Snakes on the Web: „Some time ago, Leonard Lin collected this list of all of this “other stuff” you need to worry about after developing your app: […] The good news is that there’s open source software to fill all of these needs. The bad news is that they’re all immature, disparate…

Todd Hoff at High Scalability – Strategy: Solve Only 80 Percent of the Problem: „Sometimes as programmers we are blinded by the glory of the challenge of solving the 100% solution when there’s a more reasonable, rational alternative that’s almost as good. Something to keep in mind when you are wondering how you’ll possibly get…