Autor: Tim Strehle

Monty Widenius – Oops, we did it again (MySQL 5.1 released as GA with crashing bugs): „We have changed the release model so that instead of focusing on quality and features our release is now defined by timeliness and features. Quality is not regarded to be that important.“

„unoconv converts between any document format that OpenOffice understands. It uses OpenOffice’s UNO bindings for non-interactive conversion of documents. Converts between different document formats that OpenOffice understands OpenOffice can export to about 100 different document formats Can be used for batch processing […] Can be used in a client/server environment to process documents centrally“

Joel Spolsky at Inc.com – How Hard Could It Be?: My Style of Servant Leadership: „Our company was built on the idea of hiring smart and productive people and then clearing the decks. The late, great minicomputer company Digital Equipment Corporation, better known as DEC, was so adamant about this idea that people in the…

Paul Graham – The Other Half of „Artists Ship“: „Programmers are unlike many types of workers in that the best ones actually prefer to work hard. This doesn’t seem to be the case in most types of work. […] If you have an idea for a new feature in the morning, you can write it…

Roy Fielding – REST APIs must be hypertext-driven: „A REST API should be entered with no prior knowledge beyond the initial URI (bookmark) and set of standardized media types that are appropriate for the intended audience (i.e., expected to be understood by any client that might use the API). From that point on, all application…

Signal vs. Noise – Hire managers of one: „A manager of one is someone who comes up with their own goals and executes them. They don’t need heavy direction. They don’t need daily check-ins. They do what a manager would do — set the tone, assign items, determine what needs to get done, etc. —…

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Paul Graham – Disconnecting Distraction: „After years of carefully avoiding classic time sinks like TV, games, and Usenet, I still managed to fall prey to distraction, because I didn’t realize that it evolves. Something that used to be safe, using the Internet, gradually became more and more dangerous. Some days I’d wake up, get a…

John Viega – Why geeks don’t like to run AV: „Even though I owned development for McAfee’s anti-virus technology, I did not run it at all the entire time I was there, even out of company loyalty. I did run a process NAMED the same as our AV that just fork()ed and slept, so that…