Autor: Tim Strehle

David Heinemeier Hansson at Signal vs. Noise – Average environments beget average work: „In my experience, we’re all capable of bad, average, and good work. I’ve certainly done bad work at times and plenty of average work. What I’ve realized is that the good and the exceptional work is at least as much about my…

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Scott Adams – Progress Bars: „A minute of entertainment is better than 58 seconds of boredom even if you are in a hurry.“

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Ben Ramsey – HTTP Status: Redirection: „If you want to process a POST request and then safely redirect the user agent using GET, use 303 See Other.“

Tim Bray – Atomic Monday: „To post an image (or any other bit-blob) with Atompub, you HTTP-POST it; the server stores it and creates a synthetic Atom entry for metadata about it. Then if you want to update the metadata, you have to PUT that. So Joe Gregorio, based on his work at Google, is…

Ryan Singer at Signal vs. Noise – Features are a one-way street: „Whether the feature is good or bad, once you launch it you’ve married it. This changes the economics of feature additions. If you can’t destroy what you build, each addition holds the threat of clutter. Empty pixels and free space where a new…

Jon Meyer – CSS Considered Unstylish – or why CSS sucks: „CSS purports to separate style and content, but in fact it radically fails to do so. Rather, the opposite is true – CSS actually conflates style and structure. CSS stylesheets impose many implicit restrictions on the HTML structure. These restrictions are poorly defined and…

Josh Catone at ReadWriteWeb – New York Times API Coming: „An API is a logical next step for newspapers. It will give developers access to their vast amounts of well-researched data, and allows the paper’s brand to be spread easily across the web. More access to Times content and the ability to mash it up…