Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Philip Hofstetter back in 2008 – Why is nobody using SSL client certificates?: „Did you know that ever since the days of Netscape Navigator 3.0, there is a technology that allows you to – securely sign on without using passwords, – allow for non-annoying two-factor authentication, – uniquely identify yourself to third-party websites without giving…

Sam Ghods of Box.net – Make Your Business 10X Faster with Box’s New Search: „We re-evaluated our technology and decided to make a switch to a fully distributed and scalable search platform using the open source project Solr, powered by Lucene. If Solr sounds familiar, that’s because odds are good you’re already using it. Companies…

Gonzalo Ayuso – New features in PHP5.4 alpha1: „Added array dereferencing support: […] $a = new A(); echo $a->foo()[’name‘]; (Via entwickler.com.) Update: Playing with the new PHP5.4 features by the same author.

PDFBox – PDF Highlighting: „There are cases when you might want to highlight text in a PDF document. For example, if the PDF is the result of a search request you might want to highlight the word in the resulting PDF document. There are several ways this can be achieved, each method varying in complexity…

Lauren Rabaino – How To Run A News Site And Newspaper Using WordPress And Google Docs: „1. Reporters and editors compose all stories in Google Docs. Using labels and native commenting, the stories get sent through the editing process. 2. When a story is ready to publish, it gets sent from Google Docs to WordPress…

Ryan Singer at Signal vs. Noise – What happens to user experience in a minimum viable product?: „Features can be different sizes with more or less complexity, but quality of experience should be constant across all features. That constant quality of experience is what gives your customers trust. It demonstrates to them that whatever you…

Matthew Rogers back in 2010 – Why Diaspora will fail: „Facebook isn’t evil by accident. Its massive numbers of users allow it to be that way. If the majority of people actually cared enough about their online privacy, then they’d leave Facebook.“ (Via Andreas Schiffler – Re: Replacing Facebook.)

Chade-Meng Tan – Do the right thing, wait to get fired: „I recently learned that one reason he was so successful was because he was unafraid to speak the unpleasant truth to his superiors to their faces.“ (Via Brian Fitzpatrick.)

Stijn Debrouwere – The trouble with usability experts: „Some engineers make unusable software because they’re clueless about interaction design. Many others just make unusable software because we don’t give them enough time to do a proper job. Hiring a usability expert won’t solve that.“

Matt Linderman at Signal vs. Noise – Marketing to your own team: „It’s a good lesson: You’re not just sending out a message externally, you’re sending one out internally too. If your employees don’t believe it, the whole plan falls apart.“