Autor: Tim Strehle

Bruce Eckel – The Mythical 5%: „Usually the things that make or break a project are process and people issues. The way that you work on a day-to-day basis. Who your architects are, who your managers are, and who you are working with on the programming team. How you communicate, and most importantly how you…

Jakob Nielsen – Feature Richness and User Engagement: „Typically, when new prospects first visit your site, you’re simply one of ten sites on the SERP [Search Engine Results Page]. The only way they’ll shortlist your site is if you can convince them in two minutes. Thus, websites should have almost no features: focus on the…

Gloria W. – RESTful Thoughts on a Web 2.0 Python Project: „It helps tremendously to work out the ‘chatter’ between the client and the server in human language before designing it. Here is an example of RESTful chatter between a client inventory application, and it’s corresponding server application: […] The point of the chatter is…

David Greiner – Ensuring your HTML emails look great and get delivered: „In this article that goes hand-in-hand with the release of Emails-Standards.org, David Greiner explains what you need to do to ensure that your emails not only look great in today’s email clients but also actually make it to where they’re going.“

Amazon.com: „The Alexa Site Thumbnail web service provides developers with programmatic access to thumbnail images for the home pages of web sites. It offers access to Alexa’s large and growing collection of images, gathered from its comprehensive web crawl. […] If a requested thumbnail image does not yet exist, it will be automatically generated within…

Todd Hoff at High Scalability – How can I learn to scale my project?: „The center of your design should be the data store, not a process. You transition the data store from state to state, securely and reliably, in small increments. […] Viewing an application as a series of state transitions instead of a…

„A J2EE web service client sends the document to the StarOffice 8 Server and receives the converted Acrobat PDF document immediately.“

Joel Spolsky – Talk at Yale: Part 3 of 3: „Being able to write clearly on technical topics is the difference between being a grunt individual contributor programmer and being a leader.“

Joel Spolsky – Talk at Yale: Part 1 of 3: „The old testers at Microsoft checked lots of things: they checked if fonts were consistent and legible, they checked that the location of controls on dialog boxes was reasonable and neatly aligned, they checked whether the screen flickered when you did things, they looked at…

Dmitri Popov at Linux.com – Create impressive charts with Open Flash Chart: „Creating a high-quality chart for the Web can be a challenging task, but open source software like Open Flash Chart (OFC) makes it a cinch. As you might guess from its name, the core engine of OFC is written in Adobe Flash. Although…