Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

I’m working in Digital Asset Management and love reading DAM news, and learning about technology, products, and trends. It took me a while to find all the sources for DAM information. If you’d like to dive into the world of DAM news too, you can spare most of that work by starting with my Planet…

Since July 2011, I’ve been archiving interesting Web pages in my personal instance of DC-X (the Digital Asset Management system our company is building). My archive contains 12,300 pages already and is growing daily. I’m totally in love with this feature: It’s my “private file and library” (a quote from Vannevar Bush’s 1945 As We…

Are you an idealist? Then you’re probably daydreaming of getting a say in how your organization is run. Once you have access to the decision makers, your great ideas will be heard, and you’re going to change the world together! Well – unless you’re working for an exceptional organization, you’ll soon find out that the…

Ralph Windsor – Dropbox Launches Carousel Photo Sharing App – A Game Changer For DAM?: “Budget or low-end applications like Dropbox’s Carousel are going to place further upward pressure on the scope of what existing DAM market participants are expected to provide. Anything that looks like ‚low hanging fruit‘ will increasingly be picked by these…

Oliver Joseph Ash – Inside the Guardian’s CMS: meet Scribe, an extensible rich text editor: “The problem with all of these off-the-shelf solutions is their lack of extensibility. TinyMCE, for example, does an excellent job of producing the right markup, but much of the user interface for the editor is kept privately within the library,…

Rebekah Campbell – The Surprisingly Large Cost of Telling Small Lies: “The act of lying plucks you from the present, preventing you from facing what is really going on in your world. Every time you overreport a metric, underreport a cost, are less than honest with a client or a member of your team, you…

Last week, a customer reported a problem with DC-X – some linked metadata seemed broken. It turned out that slightly buggy custom code had written DCX_PUBINFO.PUB_DOC_ID = ‚doc123 ‚ (note the trailing space) into the MySQL database, while the referenced column DCX_DOCUMENT.DOC_ID contained ‚doc123‘ (without the space). This came as a surprise to us: We…