Autor: Tim Strehle

Jamis Buck at Signal vs. Noise – Standing versus Sitting: „So I propped my keyboard and mouse up on a few encyclopedias and gave it a go. The first week was rough on my feet and legs, which ached constantly. I kept a bar stool handy for resting periodically on, but I really tried to…

David Heinemeier Hansson at Signal vs. Noise – Hire family people: „When people have other obligations outside of work that they actually care more about than your probably-not-so-world-changing idea, the crutches are not available as an easy way out, and you’ll have to walk by the power of your good ideas and execution or you’ll…

Christopher Jones – PHP Connection Pooling Whitepaper with Benchmark Available: „The whitepaper [PDF] talks about the changes in the PHP OCI8 1.3 extension, explains some of the concepts behind DRCP and FAN, and gives best practices and tuning tips. It includes a new PHP benchmark which shows up to 20,000 connections being handled by Oracle…

Paul Graham – Be Good: „There are many advantages of launching quickly, but the most important may be that once you have users, the tamagotchi effect kicks in. Once you have users to take care of, you’re forced to figure out what will make them happy, and that’s actually very valuable information.“

„“Seek” adds faceted browsing features to Mozilla Thunderbird and lets you search through your email more effectively.“

Gojko Adzic – The waterfall trap for “agile” projects: „Because increments are done in detail, a lot of effort is wasted when a piece needs rework (and the initial releases are almost certain to fall into this category). Iterative development offers a chance to see the picture from the start, and guide the development towards…

Rob Bieber – Agile / Lean or Common Sense and Permission To Change?: „What Semler’s story shows me is that if people are given the freedom to work the way that is most effective, they will. More than that, if you invest in them with trust, they will want to do these things as their…

Matt Linderman at Signal vs. Noise – Excerpts from Ricardo Semler’s book „Maverick: The Success Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace“ (citing Ricardo Semler’s Maverick): „In other words, the successful companies will be the ones that put quality of life first. Do this and the rest – quality of product, productivity of workers, profits for…

Eric Sink – Yours, Mine and Ours: „In terms of the size of the canyon, ThemWare is probably the worst possible scenario. If I am building software that I don’t use and don’t know how to use for people I don’t understand or even like, how good is my software going to be? I probably…

Timothy M. O’Brien at the O’Reilly ONJava Blog – Faster than expected… (Salesforce, Google + EC2 with Disks): „When you can fire up Eclipse and deploy a custom application to Salesforce to have it show up for your users in the context of Google Apps (Gmail, GTalk, Google Calendar, Google Docs), your own in-house applications…