Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

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…

Seth Godin – Not even one note: “At no point did someone sit me down and say, „wait, none of this matters if you can’t play a single note that actually sounds good.“ […] We add many slides to our presentation before figuring out how to utter a single sentence that will give the people…

Last month, we moved offices from the chocolate factory into the “Bacardi tower” (Stadtparkturm built by Bothe Richter Teherani) in Hamburg. I like the new office rooms, we’re sitting closer together but the rooms are quieter. We’re sharing a floor with our friends of ppi Media. Here’s some first impressions…

Michael Lopp – Drift: “See, as system thinkers, we’re trying to build a model that, well, explains everything. To assist in our discovery of everything, we’ve built ingenious ways of gathering data. Whether it’s a feed reader, a set of bookmark tab groups, Facebook, Twitter, or a news aggregator, we’ve constructed a personal machine that…