Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Imran Ali – Windows Live Barcode: „I’ve long thought the potential of 2D codes, like QR, Semacode and others, was enormous – but very few handsets are equipped, by default, with the capability to scan codes. Consequently, we see very few codes embedded in online services or the physical world. Microsoft’s move could help to…

Joel Spolsky – The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0): „A lot of programmers that you might interview these days are apt to consider recursion, pointers, and even data structures to be a silly implementation detail which has been abstracted away by today’s many happy programming languages. “When was the last time you had to…

Wikipedia: „Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) is a textbook published in 1985 about general computer programming concepts from MIT Press written by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman, with Julie Sussman. It has been used as the textbook for an introductory course in computer programming for students of…

Jon Udell at InfoWorld – Why SOA and VoIP will converge: „In a world where SOA and VoIP work hand in hand, more natural scenarios become possible. I have, for example, been dealing with a stalled purchase order of my own for several days. The business rule says that I have to contact two parties,…

Nathan Torkington – Homophily in Social Software: „If you prematurely narrow in, you’ll end up only showing them stories about melting Antarctic ice shelves without connecting to the rest of environmental, travel, or scientific stories that they’re really interested in. The best way to make those connections is to mix it up. Doing this creates…

Markus Urban – 10 Things That Will Make Or Break Your Website: „EASY is the most important feature of any website, web app, or program. Visual design and copy are extremely important. Open up your data as much possible. Test, test, test. Release features early and often. Be special. Don’t be special. If you plan…

Markus Urban – Outsource Your CSS Markup: „Some time ago I learned about two new services that offer outsourced CSS/XHTML coding. This was a pretty interesting concept and so I took both for a test drive. They both essentially convert your design from a PSD (Photoshop), Adobe Illustrator, JPG, or any type of “flat” file…

W. Eliot Kimber – Topic Maps, Knowledge, and OpenCyc: „I think that topic maps are useful and attractive as far as they go: for the general business problem of managing metadata and associating it with data objects, it’s well suited and well thought out. Why do I think that topic maps (and anything similar, such…

Oliver Rist at InfoWorld – Used properly, RSS boosts collaboration: „Microsoft’s SharePoint push has made team-style collaboration a hot buzzword in Windows IT shops — mainly because Redmond’s made it so easy. Grab a template, add some team-specific content, spend a little time handling permissions and you can have a fairly sophisticated internal collaboration site…

Frederick P. Brooks (in 1987)- No Silver Bullet: „The familiar software project, at least as seen by the nontechnical manager, has something of this character; it is usually innocent and straightforward, but is capable of becoming a monster of missed schedules, blown budgets, and flawed products. So we hear desperate cries for a silver bullet–something…