Autor: Tim Strehle

Mike Hadlow – Heisenberg Developers (from 2014): “Software development […] is a creative and experimental process. […] Numerous studies have shown that effective creative work is best done by motivated autonomous experts. As developers we need to be free to try things out, see how they evolve, back away from bad decisions, maybe try several…

This article was written by Laurel Norris and published on the Digital Asset Management.com site (owned by DAM vendor Widen) on September 19, 2015, under the URL http://digitalassetmanagement.com/blog/dam-champ-tim-strehle/. Because that site’s blog posts are not available anymore, I’m publishing a copy on my blog. If you are active in the DAM community on Twitter, you’ve…

Today I watched Erik Dörnenburg’s excellent talk Architecture without Architects (recorded in December 2014). Some takeaways: Erik explains how software “architect” is, in several ways, not a good metaphor. “Town planner” or even “gardener” might be better metaphors, considering that software architecture constantly needs to be adapted and reshaped. He encourages vertical slicing with room…

I don’t travel much, so I’m extra happy that the publishing industry (where most of our customers are from) is going to meet in our home town this year: The WAN-IFRA World Publishing Expo 2015 (Twitter: #WPE15) takes place in Hamburg, Germany from October 5-7. Our company Digital Collections is exhibiting (booth 1.415), but I…

A pretty simple programming task: Find the most-used words in a text and count how often they’re used. (With the goal of later creating a pretty Wordle-like word cloud from this data.) I assumed there would be some existing tool or code, and Roger Howard said NLTK’s FreqDist() was “easy as pie”. So today I…

You have probably heard of Blendle, the promising “iTunes for News” startup from the Netherlands that’s backed by the NYT and Axel Springer. They’re launching in Germany on September 14th. I’ve been a fan of the Blendle idea for a long time: effortlessly buying print articles from a central “online kiosk”, with an equally easy…

(Disclosure: I’m no OpenLDAP expert, just a user. Use the commands below at your own risk. Please let me know if I’m recommending something dumb…) OpenLDAP slapd is popular open source server software that implements the LDAP protocol – you use it to store users, groups and their attributes, and you can use it for…

Friends of ours recently visited the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. They told us the story of the Vasa, a warship that sank almost immediately after setting out for her maiden voyage in 1628. According to Wikipedia: “Richly decorated as a symbol of the king’s ambitions for Sweden and himself, upon completion she was one…

Dave Winer – Too much linear thinking in news: “I think they [Circa] were on to something. Starting topics, and then adding stories to each topic as the news comes in. A story isn’t something that’s published once and done, it’s more of a process. […] Circa resisted joining the open web. I think that…

Yesterday, we met with a potential customer’s tech and development team who were interested in the backend of our DC-X DAM system. I gave a quick overview of the system architecture, the most important data structures, and our brand new JSON API. Here’s the slides of my presentation (or download a PDF of the presentation):