Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Joel Spolsky – The Big Picture: „The only thing harder than trying to design software is trying to design software as a team. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in a meeting with even one or two other programmers, trying to figure out how something should work, and we’re just not getting…

Jon Udell – First have a great use experience, then have a great user experience: „We talk obsessively about the user experience, and we recognize that we invariably fail to make it as crisp and coherent as it should be. But user experience is an overloaded term. I propose that we unpack it into (at…

This week, my 2-year-old Acer TravelMate running Windows XP has been replaced by a 17″ Apple MacBook Pro. The switch went surprisingly well so far (with a little help from Mac-experienced colleagues). Here’s the software I’ve installed so far: Adium Firefox Fugu iTerm OpenOffice Skype Smultron Thunderbird Tunnelblick VMware Fusion Update: TextWrangler Black Screen Dashboard…

Nathaniel S. H. Brown – PHP vs. Ruby on Rails. An evolutionary story of a Web Developer and his tools: „What I find in ever increasing potency is that Ruby and Ruby on Rails needs documentation like PHP. Actually, every language ever created needs documentation like PHP. It is, at least it should be, the…

The NeoSmart Files – The Need for Creating Tag Standards: „Basically, it’s too late for a tagging standard that will be used unanimously throughout the web. A truly semantic web most certainly won’t ever exist because of the reluctance to change and the unwillingness to compromise and accept defeat. A semantic web requires objective analysis…

Marc Hedlund at O’Reilly Radar – Amazon S3 is everywhere: „Seems to me that everywhere I turn, I’m hearing about someone doing something cool with Amazon S3. Here’s a collection of some of the things I’ve noticed.“

Timothy M. O’Brien at ONJava – Java’s „Operations“ Problem: „Tell a really capable Debian admin that they are going to have to support a bunch of Java applications, and they will subconsciously shudder. Sysadmins are, by definition, OS focused, they enjoy dealing with native applications, and they tend to fear the JVM as it is…

„CAS provides enterprise single sign on service: An open and well-documented protocol An open-source Java server component A library of clients for Java, .Net, PHP, Perl, Apache, uPortal, and others“

Jon Udell – Trusted feeds: „As several folks rightly pointed out in comments here, a community site based on tagging and syndication is exquisitely vulnerable to abuse. In the first incarnation of the photos page, for example, a malicious person could have posted something awful to Flickr and it would have shown up on that…

„Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.“