Autor: Tim Strehle

Jon Udell – Rebooting my 2002-2006 archive: „I’m glad I’m not in publishing anymore. It turns out to be a lousy way to keep your stuff published.“

Scott Adams – Teamwork: „The dominant team members will get their way over the objections of the meek, no matter how competent the meek might be. […] All meetings last longer than they should.“

Tim Bray – Less Like Oration: „The Net has had a twofold effect on short-form publishing: First, it’s cheap, verging on free. Second, it enjoys many routes to potentially large audiences. It’s the second that’s interesting. Until recently, you simply couldn’t find a large audience for your thoughts unless you had books on shelves in…

David Ascher – Getting insight into one’s own email: „The “start page”, which makes a lot of sense in Firefox, never made a huge amount of sense to me in Thunderbird. In particular, it’s shown only when a folder is selected, and no message is selected. That’s hardly a logical time to show the (colorful,…

Eric Ries – Fear is the mind-killer: „When a new engineer started at IMVU, I had a simple rule: they had to ship code to production on their first day. […] For some, this was an absolutely terrifying experience. „What if I take the site down?!“ was a common refrain. I tried to make sure…

Adam Shand – Lessons Learned from Previous Employment: „Surviving the loss of a key person, is never as hard as you think it will be. […] The one thing that managers hate, more than anything else, is being surprised. […] Everything takes longer than you expect. Lots longer. […] One of the primary jobs of…

Grant Ingersoll – Exploring Lucene and Solr’s TrieRange Capabilities: „Now, however, thanks to the new org.apache.lucene.search.trie package (currently located in the contrib/queries area of Lucene, but it may move to the Lucene core, see below) and it’s addition to Solr via a FieldType, Lucene and Solr users can take advantage of much faster range searches.“

Timothy M. O’Brien at O’Reilly Radar – Google Announces Support for Microformats and RDFa: „On Tuesday, Google introduced a feature called Rich Snippets which provides users with a convenient summary of a search result at a glance. They have been experimenting with microformats and RDFa, and are officially introducing the feature and allowing more sites…

RJ Owen at InsideRIA – New York Times AIR reader released: „As a whole, the application does a better job replicating the „newspaper“ experience than reading in the browser. […] Clean design and great execution make this a stellar user experience, and something other companies should strive to emulate. Even more impressive, I’ve had this…

Scott Adams – Calendar as Filter: „I think the biggest software revolution of the future is that the calendar will be the organizing filter for most of the information flowing into your life. You think you are bombarded with too much information every day, but in reality it is just the timing of the information…