Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Our Digital Asset Management system DC-X has a Web based user interface (UI) that has been built primarily for power users: Lots of functionality and information, keyboard shortcuts, drag & drop, right-click context menus, small fonts, slow load/startup (single page Ajax Web app), large screen required. The first impression can be a bit intimidating, but…

One of the more technical decisions when building our simpler DAM system user interface: Should we build it like a Web site, i.e. as a set of interlinked but independent Web pages? Or as a fancy, Ajax-powered “single page Web application” that you load just once, with all further interactions taking place within the same…

Phil Libin, Evernote CEO – On Software Quality and Building a Better Evernote in 2014: “There comes a time […] when it’s important to pause for a bit and look in rather than up. When it’s more important to improve existing features than to add new ones. More important to make our existing users happier…

Jack Vinson – Out of the Crisis – still relevant: “Deming repeats the main mantra over and over: Management owns the system. It is the system that generates the results. If those results are unacceptable, it is management’s responsibility to investigate and improve the system. Repeatedly. This is continuous improvement and is the only way…

Ruben Verborgh – The lie of the API: “Accessing the website is quite easy: you just go to the URL of an object to visit it. […] Now developers come in. It can’t be as easy as reusing this unique identifier, can it? Of course not, we first have to read the documentation. Here are…

Asset Bank – Introducing Crowd Feature: “As far as we know Asset Bank is the first vendor of enterprise business software to offer crowdfunding as an option for clients who request the development of a product feature. Crowd Feature is intended for clients who want a new feature, can be flexible about time scales, and…