Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Tim Bray – Not Piracy: “Anyone who claims that unauthorized transmission of bits is analogous to piracy is at least a liar and is deeply disrespectful of the people who are suffering the effects of theft, kidnapping, and murder right now today in the Indian Ocean. They deserve your contempt, and they have mine.”

IT Enquirer – Successful DAM evolves to publishing system: “Integration or downright transformation into a publishing system: DAM vendors are hot in today’s digitized world. […] Typical usages for DAM are for example brand management and photo management. Increasingly DAM is also shifting from pure management system to publishing system. […] Digital Asset Management can…

Ed Finkler – The MicroPHP Manifesto: “I am not a Zend Framework or Symfony or CakePHP developer […] I like building small things that work together to solve larger problems […] I need to justify every piece of code I add to a project” (I mostly agree, but I love Rush!)

Joel Spolsky – How Trello is different: “The great horizontal killer applications are actually just fancy data structures. Spreadsheets are not just tools for doing „what-if“ analysis. They provide a specific data structure: a table. Most Excel users never enter a formula. […] Word processors are not just tools for writing books, reports, and letters.…

Ben Yoskovitz – Small Features: “The first instinct is to build a configuration option to let people decide how they want it to work. That’s more code, more complexity, more risk and potential points of failure. It also means more UI has to be designed, and once you go down that road it’s hard to…

Stijn Debrouwere – Taxonomies don’t matter anymore: “Automated recommendation engines are mainly useful as cute but non-essential pageview drivers and if your journalists are too lazy to add links. […] We don’t come to topic pages for automatically aggregated sort-of-relevant content with no editorial guidance as to what’s important and what’s not. Sometimes, you just…

Seth Godin – Tools vs insight: “Knowing about a tool is one thing. Having the guts to use it in a way that brings art to the world is another. Perhaps we need to spend less time learning new tools and more time using them.”

Atlassian Confluence team – Why We Removed the Wiki Markup Editor in Confluence 4.0: “Wiki markup as a storage format hindered our ability to add new features, like merge table cells, that customers had been demanding. This is because Wiki Markup is a very limited subset of XHTML and because any new editor feature had…

Seth Godin – A great way to give thanks…: “For every person reading this there are a thousand people (literally a thousand) in underprivileged nations and situations that would love to have your slot. Don’t waste it.”

W3C Candidate Recommendation Ontology for Media Resources 1.0 (July 2011): “The intent of this vocabulary is to bridge the different descriptions of media resources, and provide a core set of descriptive properties. This document defines a core set of metadata properties for media resources, along with their mappings to elements from a set of existing…