Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Jack Vinson – People resist stupidity, not change: “If you see people as „resisting“ a change initiative, maybe they just see the immediate impact of the change as „stupid“ and not helping them in their goals to learn and grow. Refactor your thinking. Get into their heads – solve problems they actually have, rather than…

Seth Godin – “How’d it work out?”: “Doctors and consultants and builders are often hesitant to ask about how something worked long after the work is done. It feels like nothing but a chance to hear a complaint. It’s not. It’s a chance to show that you care. And a chance to learn how to…

Evan Sandhaus at New York Times Open – rNews is here. And this is what it means.: “On September 21, the IPTC and Schema.org officially announced their work together. So by October 2011, we had a supported standard for embedding publishing specific metadata into HTML documents. Now all we had to do was actually implement…

Pieter Hintjens – How to Design Perfect (Software) Products: Trash-Oriented Design: “Eventually, something resembling a working product makes it out of the door. It’s creaky and fragile, complex and ugly. The designers curse the engineers for their incompetence and pay more consultants to put lipstick onto the pig, and slowly the product starts to look…

Seth Godin – Who cares?: “If we define good enough sufficiently low, we’ll probably meet our standards. Caring involves raising that bar to the point where the team has to stretch. […] Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.”

An interview by Jane Zupan on the Nuxeo Content Geeks blog – Is 2012 the Year of User Experience in ECM?: “In the not-too-distant past, user experience (UX) was considered an annoying afterthought for enterprise application development and deployment. User adoption was often disappointing, and the disconnect between business and IT seemed like a deep…

ISYS Document Filters: “Support for hundreds of common and legacy file, email, archive and container formats (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, WordPerfect, ZIPs, MSGs). […] Converts files into HTML and renders embedded graphics as a JPEG or PNG.” (Via Enterprise Search.)

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!)