Autor: Tim Strehle

Extracts from the book The UNIX Philosophy by Mike Gancarz – The Three Systems of Man: „The third system appears after people become disenchanted with their second system. The Third System is: often built by people who have been „burned“ by the second system often given a name change to disassociate it with the original…

Paul Graham – Why TV Lost: „The TV networks already seem, grudgingly, to see where things are going, and have responded by putting their stuff, grudgingly, online. But they’re still dragging their heels. They still seem to wish people would watch shows on TV instead, just as newspapers that put their stories online still seem…

Simon Wardley at O’Reilly Radar – Karmic Koalas Love Eucalyptus: „Rule 2: I want to easily migrate the service from my infrastructure to a cloud provider and vice versa with a few clicks of a button.“

Alistair Croll at GigaOM – 7 Questions to Evaluate SaaS: „With software as a service, the focus has become whether the tool is good enough on day one and how well it will adapt over time. […] How effectively can your users accomplish their goals? How many cases-per-minute or entries-per-day can workers do, and how…

Mike Hendrickson at O’Reilly Radar – State of the Computer Book Market 2008, part 4 — The Languages: „If you look at the five-year trend for the languages shown below, you can see that C# has been steadily growing year after year while Java has been going in the opposite direction during the same period.…

Aaron Conran – Pixel Bender Explorer: Bending Ext AIR Apps: „Pixel Bender is an exciting new technology by Adobe which brings video and image processing capabilities to the flash runtime. It allows you to create and apply filters to ‘bend’ pixels and create compelling animations which have never been possible in an HTML environment. Because…

Dan McCreary at O’Reilly Broadcast – How Entity Extraction is Fueling the Semantic Web Fire: „I have been very impressed at the scope and depth of some of the new OpenSource entity extraction tools as well as the robustness of commercial products. I thought I would discuss this since these technologies could start to move…

Eric Ries – Work in small batches: „It turns out that organizations get better at those things that they do very often. So when we start checking in code more often, release more often, or conduct more frequent design reviews, we can actually do a lot to make those steps dramatically more efficient.“

Scott Adams – Quality Follows Popularity: „If you are planning to create some business or other form of entertainment, you will need quality at some point to succeed. But what is more important than quality in the beginning is some intangible element that makes your project inherently interesting before anyone has even sampled it. That…

James Turner interviews Andrew Huang at O’Reilly Radar – Inside Factory China: „One of the reasons why I like to go out on the floor to China is I like to make sure that all the people that we work with are treated well and humanely, right? So I actually stay in the factory dorms…