Autor: Tim Strehle

Tim Bray –Build One To Throw Away: „Managers, good managers, want a plan; they want to lock in design constraints so that work can be dealt out and progress tracked and promises kept. Programmers, good programmers, know that they’re not smart enough to get the core design choices right until they’ve built something that works.…

Todd Hoff at High Scalability – Latency is Everywhere and it Costs You Sales – How to Crush it: „In one of Greg’s slides Google VP Marissa Mayer, in reference to the Google results, is quoted as saying „Users really respond to speed.“ […] Yet for some reason latency isn’t a topic talked a lot…

Firefox extension DragDropUpload (found here in the Firefox add-on directory): „Drop files into attachment boxes instead of browse for them or type in the filename. Drop multiple files and fill all the entries.“ iFrame-based file uploads are described here: WebToolkit: AJAX file upload, El Micox Codes: Asynchronous upload – Like AJAX – 1 function.

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Simon St. Laurent – Web, meet Semantic Web: „The key point of [Sam] Hunting’s experience, which emphasized letting users do what they wanted to do, valid or not valid, was that „People really do care about tagging – they really do tag – when they get an immediate positive result.“ The key phrase there is…

Gojko Adzic – The fifth element of the Agile Manifesto: „Martin [Fowler] then talked about Ignaz Semmelweis, a hospital administrator in 19th century Vienna who discovered that the mortality rate in a maternity clinic could be drastically cut by making doctors wash their hands when moving between the autopsy ward and the maternity ward. Semmelweis…

Gojko Adzic – 10 ways to screw up despite Scrum and XP: „Henrik Kniberg, author of Scrum and Xp from the Trenches, talked today at Agile 2008 about the most common ways for teams to fail despite applying agile practices and tools. His presentation was organised as a talk about common problems and symptoms of…

Kurt Cagle at O’Reilly News – Drupal as Open Architecture: „One thing that’s rubbed at me for a while is that Ruby on Rails is still based upon this paradigm that you have to write code in order to build a site, which means that Ruby will always be of use only to those people…

Todd Hoff at High Scalability – A Bunch of Great Strategies for Using Memcached and MySQL Better Together: „What I’m struck with is the enormous amount of effort that goes into syncing rows and objects back and forth between the cache and the database. Shouldn’t it be easier?“

Gojko Adzic – Building smart teams: „Have people on the team that think differently, use different tools and approach the problems from a different angle. This will help the team spot blind spots easier and avoid the echo effect, increasing the team collective intelligence.“