Autor: Tim Strehle

Adobe Flex Builder Omni Group OmniGraffle TechSmith Camtasia for Mac VMware Fusion (and Windows XP running in a VM) That’s all. (As an Adobe partner, our company also has licenses for developing and testing against the Adobe Creative Suite but that’s not what I use to get my work done.) It’s great that developing software…

Kas Thomas at CMS Watch – Solr heads for an even sunnier future: „Anyone who’s been watching the search space for a while knows that Apache Solr — the popular open-source search server built on Lucene — is the elephant in the room for a great many product-selection teams these days. It may be an…

Joel Spolsky – Capstone projects and time management: „College students in their final year have about 16 years of experience doing short projects and leaving everything until the last minute. […] This might be a neat opportunity to use Scrum. […] I’ve been blaming students, here, for lacking the discipline to do term-length projects throughout…

Eric Ries – A real Customer Advisory Board: „In a previous company, we put together a group of passionate early adopters. […] Every two months, the company would have a big end-of-milestone meeting, with our Board of Directors, Business Advisory Board, and all employees present. At this meeting, we’d present a big package of our…

Irina Guseva et al. – Things We Hate About Content Management: „Interfaces need a comfortable lived in feel. Content management is something people work with every day, it is their interface to their job. You meet people who hate the interface, and that makes their work a heap of pain. I have seen people who…

Tim O’Reilly at O’Reilly Radar – Thoughts on the Whitehouse.gov switch to Drupal: „Yesterday, the new media team at the White House announced via the Associated Press that whitehouse.gov is now running on Drupal, the open source content management system. That Drupal implementation is in turn running on a Red Hat Linux system with Apache,…

Theresa Neil at Designing Web Interfaces – iTunes Solves the Nested Clause Dilema: „Now, to my delight, Apple has tackled the last remaining frontier of predicate editors- the nested clause. My design partner, Jessica, found this when trying to pull together a playlist for her birthday last week. She needed something more complex than a…

Tim Bray – PubHubSunday: „I see PubSubHubbub, as much as anything, as an attempt to capture Twitter’s pattern of information flow in a reproducible, interoperable way. […] Hooking up a publishing system to the PubSubHubbub machinery is damn easy; I know because I just did it. You have to put <link> element(s) in your Atom…

Kas Thomas at CMS Watch – Usability still improving — improvement still needed: „Dialogs are annoying, in general, because there’s usually very little actual „dialog“ happening in a dialog box; it’s more of a monolog. It’s the programmer who wrote the software telling you what to do next, rather than the reverse.“

Gojko Adzic cites Elisabeth Hendrikson’s keynote at the Agile Testing Days – Seven key agile testing practices for releasable software: „Agile software teams deliver value in the form of releasable software at frequent regular intervals (at least monthly), at a sustainable pace, while adapting to the changing needs of the business. […] Bottom line is…