Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Seth Godin – Talker’s block: „If you’re concerned with quality, of course, then not writing is not a problem, because zero is perfect and without defects. Shipping nothing is safe. The second best thing to zero is something better than bad.“

Seth Godin – „Please complain“: „If no one is listening, the thinking goes, then perhaps the annoyed will quietly go away. […] Whichever strategy you choose, you should choose. It’s the middle way that vexes… the pretending, the grudging acceptance, the insertion of many levels of filters.“

Richard Padley of Semantico – Triple bypass – What does the death of the semantic web mean for publishers?: „For years semantic web purists have been preaching that the future is all about RDF and triples. Yet, in the 12 years that theorists have been working on the semantic web, we’ve yet to see many…

Chris Riley at aiim Capture – No guys, it’s IT vs. End-Users: „Avoid the end-users, create something they don’t need. Involve the end-users, increase the deployment time. […] IT should once again be more cutting edge then their end-users. Solving problems end-users did not even know they had. By doing so transforming their value from…

Marco Arment – Customer culture: „People who aren’t willing or able to compromise on their needs regularly are much more likely to be Windows customers. The Windows message is much more palatable to corporate buyers, committees, middlemen, and people who don’t like to be told what’s best for them: „You can do whatever you want,…

ProgrammableWeb – The Six Pillars of Complete Developer Documentation: „A complete documentation set should try to include the following: Class Reference: A comprehensive listing of API functionality. Changelog: A reference of what changes in each API version. Code Samples: A set of examples showing typical API usage. Code Playground: An interactive explorer for trying the…

Scott Weiss – Ridiculously Transparent: „The more that I thought about it, the more I believed that sharing absolutely everything would create massive advantages and that we should live with whatever consequences resulted. So, after board meetings, we would assemble the company and go through every board slide… How much cash in the bank? What’s…

Henri Bergius – Embrace And Extend: „These [SPDY, Dart, Schema.org] – together with WebSQL, NaCl, WebM and WebP – mean that Google has active efforts to replace practically every layer of the web (except HTML itself) with something of their own design. The way all of these were introduced bears strong reminders of how Microsoft…

„Watir, pronounced water, is an open-source (BSD) family of Ruby libraries for automating web browsers. It allows you to write tests that are easy to read and maintain. It is simple and flexible. Watir drives browsers the same way people do. It clicks links, fills in forms, presses buttons. Watir also checks results, such as…

Brad Feld on a Steve Jobs quote – Start With Customer Experience: „I believe very strongly in the consumerization of IT – namely the notion that innovation in software is now being driven by consumer applications, and correspondingly by consumers, not by enterprise IT organizations and enterprise software vendors. If you accept this, it means…