Autor: Tim Strehle

InfoQ interview – Tim Bray on the Future of the Web: „When the web came along people shriked with glee and universally abandoned all those rich immersive responsive pre-internet applications and ran into the arms of the web. […] Over the years since then I have regularly and steadily heard them saying: „We need something…

Jakob Nielsen – Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well: „Mega drop-downs make it easy to use icons and pictures when appropriate. And, even if you stick to text alone, you have richer typography at your disposal (letting you differentiate link sizes according to their importance, for example).“

Bill Taylor – Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit–And You Should Too: „The fast-growing company, which works hard to recruit people to join, says to its newest employees: „If you quit today, we will pay you for the amount of time you’ve worked, plus we will offer you a $1,000 bonus.“ Zappos actually bribes…

Paul Graham – Cities and Ambition: „One of the exhilarating things about coming back to Cambridge every spring is walking through the streets at dusk, when you can see into the houses. When you walk through Palo Alto in the evening, you see nothing but the blue glow of TVs. In Cambridge you see shelves…

Christopher Jones – PHP OCI8 Signal Handling and –enable-sigchild: „Only if you see defunct „zombie“ Oracle server processes then start PHP/Apache with the Oracle Net option BEQUEATH_DETACH=YES in your sqlnet.ora, or, to keep the setting specific to PHP, set your environment starting Apache. […] You should never need to configure PHP with –enable-sigchild or set…

Paul Graham – Lies We Tell Kids: „Whenever we lie to kids to protect them, we’re usually also lying to keep the peace. One consequence of this sort of calming lie is that we grow up thinking horrible things are normal. It’s hard for us to feel a sense of urgency as adults over something…

Joel Spolsky – How to be a program manager: „The number one mistake most companies make is having the manager of the programmers writing the specs and designing the product. This is a mistake because the design does not get a fair trial, and is not born out of conflict and debate, so it’s not…

Clay Shirky – Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable: „It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem. […] The competition-deflecting effects of printing cost got destroyed…

Eric Ries – Why PHP won: „Everything is request-oriented, short-lived, and stateless. A PHP script is like an object itself, encapsulating a bit of functionality behind an interface defined by HTTP. It’s one of the most effective paradigms for software devlopment in history. The platforms that win on the web are those that mirror its…

Wolfgang Michal – Keine Rente für Wallraff!: „Arme & Arbeiter kommen in den Medien nur vor, wenn man sie denunzieren kann (Hartz-IV-Schlampen, Kinderverwahrloser, Bildungsdeppen). Für etwas stehen, etwas riskieren, ein Thema durchsetzen, das ist nicht das Ding der jungen Reporter. Sie wollen bloß unterhalten. Opa Wallraff wird’s schon richten.“