Autor: Tim Strehle

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.“

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.“