Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Douglas Crockford in his book JavaScript: The Good Parts: „Features have a specification cost, a design cost, and a development cost. There is a testing cost and a reliability cost. The more features there are, the more likely one will develop problems or will interact badly with another. In software systems, there is a storage…

Jack Vinson – What are you solving?: „Instead of pushing the tool/widget/change, figure out how it will make their problems go away. Be as specific as possible here, because it is the specific problems that people want to solve. Of course, you aren’t done when you link your change to their problems. You need to…

Caridy Patino at the Yahoo! User Interface Blog – Making Search Direct Accessible: „Search Direct also features a content panel, a.k.a. the rich panel, where suggestion-related content is displayed. The intention of the rich panel is to provide a direct answer to the user when a suggestion from the autocomplete list is selected.“

Aloha Editor: „The world’s most advanced browser HTML5 based WYSIWYG editor lets you experience a whole new way of editing. It’s faster than existing technologies and offers unprecedented WYSIWYG functionalities.“ (Via Henri Bergius.)

Naresh Sarwan at Digital Asset Management News – Will Adobe Provide The Edge For DAM?: „Following the release of Adobe Flex 3 in 2007, many DAM vendors made some investment into Flex/Flash, but many also quickly retreated from releasing their full product strategies for Flex due to the spiralling costs and complexities encountered when any…

Seth Godin – When the truth is just around the corner: „When your organization has a chance to see itself as its customers do, do your leaders crowd around, trying to glean every insight they can about the story and your future, or do they prefer the status quo?“

Seth Godin – Responsibility and authority: „There’s a different approach, though, one that’s based on responsibility instead of authority. „Anyone who takes responsibility for getting something done is welcome to ask for the authority to do it.“

„Tilt is a Firefox extension that lets you visualize any web page DOM tree in 3D.“ (Via Nat Torkington at O’Reilly Radar.)

Marco Arment – Own your identity: „Sadly, most people don’t care about giving control of their online identity to current or future advertising companies. But there will always be the open web for the geeks, the misfits, the eccentrics, the control freaks, and any other term we can think of to proudly express our healthy…

Seth Godin – The invisible crossroads: „It’s easy to get stressed and excited about the infrequent crossroads. It’s just as easy to ignore the daily opportunities you have to change everything.“