Autor: Tim Strehle

Joel Spolsky – Seattle: „If you ever started a new project by writing code, and you thought you’d “design as you went along,” what you’re doing is driving around with the handbrakes on. Here’s why. Designing a feature by writing a thoughtful spec takes about 1/10th as much time as writing the code for that…

Andrew Tetlaw at SitePoint – Watch out for CouchDB: „A view is a dynamic structure that acts like a search query, providing a virtual table of documents matching the query. The query, previously expressed in a proprietary language, is now a JavaScript function which is used to determine which documents to include in the view.…

„JSJaC is a jabber client library written in JavaScript to ease implementation of web based jabber clients.“ There’s a separate page about the 1.0 branch.

Scott Adams at The Dilbert Blog – Invent This Product: „When the vacation is over, the scrapbook is 85% complete. You just have to check its assumptions and add/correct any descriptors you want. You could run it as a slide show, with a little icon of a car traveling from location to location on the…

Rick Jelliffe at XML.com – The fall of the Desktop and the File and the rise of Topical Interfaces and Topical Documents: „The rise of Topics represents a great challenge to operating system and desktop suite vendors. When we look at Windows, or Mac or Linux window managers, we see that they really interact with…

Paul Graham – Holding a Program in One’s Head: „Perhaps it will help to understand that the way programmers behave is driven by the demands of the work they do. It’s not because they’re irresponsible that they work in long binges during which they blow off all other obligations, plunge straight into programming instead of…

Jason Fried at Signal vs. Noise – Design Decision: Welcome Tab vs. Primer: „The Welcome Tab in Backpack provides even more information than the old Primer, but it doesn’t get in your way. You can keep the tab around for reference as long as you’d like without it cluttering up your pages or pushing down…

Sean McGrath at ITworld.com – I’ll push and you pull. The mashup approach to application integration: „The mashup phenomenon begs a very pertinent question: can all application integration scenarios that we naturally express in push-centric language, be implemented with pull-centric designs? Is there a limit to what you can do with a mashup – something…

Eliot Kimber – InDesign CS3 and XML Authoring: Could be Good: „The main gotcha here is that InDesign is sensitive to newlines in the XML data, because newlines trigger the application of paragraph styles. What I’ve found so far is that you have to manage the text content very carefully so that you only emit…

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