Autor: Tim Strehle

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.“

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…