Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Eric Barroca interviewed for the Nuxeo blog Meet the Team series: “The main problem is staying focused on what matters. Being relatively small means you have limited resources, so we have to avoid distractions, and focus on delivering great software to customers. But we also have to let ourselves get distracted just enough by what’s…

Matthias Marschall – Where Agile Starts: “Treating your team members as resources will make them start acting like things instead of people. They’ll keep their great ideas to themselves. […] Respect their time Respect their goals Respect their needs”

Mike Loukides at O’Reilly Radar – Apple’s maps: “Apple is really looking at a data problem: bad data, incomplete data, conflicting data, poor quality data, incorrectly formatted data. Anyone who works with data understands that 80% of the work in any data product is getting your data into good enough shape so that it’s useable.…

Rowan Simpson – Be a good dictator: “So, ask yourself: What do you care about? What do you have authority over? What will you take responsibility for? […] Whether you’re a designer, developer or business person, the more your satisfaction is derived from shipping something, the more your success will be correlated with the success…

Michael Lopp – The Second Test: “Engineers are meritocratic, which means we don’t really care about your resume or your title. While your resume might be an interesting story that eventually led to your hiring, we want to see what you can build. Right now, that alien sitting across the table is wondering about your…

Ten years ago, in the September of 2002, I started publishing work notes and links on this page: Here’s the first post from the archives… I’m keeping this blog strictly work related (as I do with my Twitter account). So the main topics are Digital Asset Management, the web development technology stack (e.g. PHP, JavaScript,…

Naresh Sarwan at Digital Asset Management News – S3 Now Supports CORS – Does The Separation Of DAM Client And Server Applications Start Here?: “What it means is that multiple hosted front-ends can now work on the same asset file. Therefore, it is feasible for a separate class of ‘client side application’ to be mixed…

Miguel de Icaza – What Killed the Linux Desktop: “Back in February I attended FOSDEM and two of my very dear friends were giggling out of excitement at their plans to roll out a new system that will force many apps to be modified to continue running. They have a beautiful vision to solve a…

Juan Pablo Sarmiento – 11 Reasons Why Responsive Design Isn’t That Cool!: “Viewing a responsive website on a mobile device forces the CPU and memory of it while resizing images because you are downloading a large image, uncompressing it in your phone’s memory and then resizing it to fit a small screen. […] CSS media…

Erik Hartman at CMSWire – Managing Metadata – Any Volunteers?: “Librarians and archivists for that matter, are academically trained in using metadata for retrieval and reuse. Though well equipped for the task, most librarians are quite invisible to the web team and on the verge of being fired due to budget cuts. These people can…