Autor: Tim Strehle

Andrew Sullivan – War Criminal: „The decision to allow one man – the decider – to pre-empt and knowingly distort the rule of law in order to detain and torture anyone he wants – is a function not of conservatism, but of fascism. […] There is no doubt – no doubt at all – that…

Adam Bosworth – Building and Blogging again: „Some extremely clear-headed and smart people can work out everything abstractly in their heads and then just go and implement it. I’m not one of them. Watching me write code is like watching an indecisive sculptor work with clay. I shape it. I look. I wince. I reshape…

Jon Udell – Tagging and foldering: „On the desktop as well as on the web, we’re in the midst of a long transition from container-based to query-based storage and retrieval. And really, transition is the wrong word, because the two approaches will coexist into the indefinite future. Given that coexistence, how can we help people…

Sam Ruby – Key + Data: „What do dynamo, memcached, Berkley DB, and couchdb have in common with each other, and in many ways with other structures like my hard drive or your mail or the www? Namely that everything is accessed by a primary key, and that metadata is either attached to, or embedded…

Jason Fried – Ask 37signals: Pressure to grow?: „We’ve intentionally set up our business so our headcount doesn’t need to grow linearly with our key business metrix. We’ve put self-serve at the core of our company. Self serve sign up, self serve upgrade, self serve downgrade, self serve cancellation. We’ve been constantly tweaking the UIs…

Ellyssa Kroski – Information Design for the New Web: „Website designers are keeping a simple and Zen-like layout by increasing line heights and adding lots of whitespace to pages. Instead of crowding the page with information overload, New Web designers are focusing on the essentials, and producing clean and fresh pages.“ (Via Nico Brünjes.)

Philip C. Plumlee at ONLamp.com – Big Requirements Up Front: „Phased delivery and merciless refactoring are not merely ways to prepare for unknowable requirements. They are a system to find a cheap path to a valuable goal. Even if the goal is well known, the path is not.“

„CLIPS is a tool for building expert systems. This PHP extension [PHLIPS] provides PHP with a basic interface to a CLIPS environment. Its purpose is to allow deployment of expert systems in PHP.“ Unfortunately the PHP extension doesn’t seem to be developed anymore…

Derek Sivers – 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails: „Ruby is prettier. Rails has nice shortcuts. But no big shortcuts I can’t code-up myself in a day if needed. Looked at from a real practical point of view, I could do anything in PHP, and there were many business…

„Whenever you create an email campaign, do you spend hours testing it in all your different email programs and ISP accounts and spam filters? Or do you just click „send“ and pray to the email gods? We feel your pain. That’s why we created the MailChimp Inbox Inspector…“