Autor: Tim Strehle

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…

Another thing I keep forgetting in vi / vim: :%s/search/replace/g Joe ‚Zonker‘ Brockmeier at Linux.com – Vim tips: The basics of search and replace

I keep forgetting this line… $ cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh user@host ‚cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys‘ Update – you might instead want to try: $ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@host ‚cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys‘ If it still doesn’t work, check the file permissions: 0700 on the .ssh directory and 0644 on the authorized_keys file are working for me,…

Jason Morrison – Twelve dollars for five words? What is the Associated Press thinking?: „No, I am not making this up. The AP is really asking people to pay them $12.50 if they quote more than four words of any story. […] How would the AP operate if every source they quoted demanded payment up…

Kas Thomas at CMS Watch – Thinking beyond the RFP: „Don’t ask „How will you be able to handle XYZ?“ unless you’re willing to tolerate answers like „Our standard user interface allows a user to do this“ or „our application programming interface allows the product to be easily extended so as to accomplish this.“ Instead,…

Eric Ries – The Steve Jobs method: „Having so few products means Apple can dedicate enormous resources to each project once it gets the green light. But it also means they have to be very careful kill projects if they are not trending towards something great. Which comes to the second major principle: halt work…

Aral Balkan – My Sys-Con Nightmare: „It all started at the end of March, 2009, when I discovered that I was listed as an author on a site called Ulitzer. They had used my name as a subdomain on their site […] and the site presented a photo of me, stating that I had been…