Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

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…

Dave Winer – What I wanted, part II: “This was a secret of mine, because most of my competitors not only didn’t listen to their users, but they didn’t even use their own products. […] Be both a user and a developer. That way you understand users, and you can make their dreams come true,…

Dave Winer – Respect: “I respect people who ship software that’s open to competition, and then write specs to show people how to compete with them. It’s just like the web. People come back to places that send them away.”

Scott Adams – Rewarding Work: “Whenever you see the x-factor in someone’s output – that little extra something that turns the good into the awesome – it’s a marker for intrinsic motivation. […] To get to awesome you need to think you might be changing the world, saving lives, redeeming your reputation, attracting the mate…