Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

George Reese at O’Reilly Community – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of REST APIs: „The data in your API calls should not look like highly normalized representations of database tables. They should represent a model of the data in a way that makes sense to API consumers. When you map APIs to your…

Seth Godin – Caring: „If you want to build a caring organization, you need to fill it with caring people and then get out of their way.“

Jack Vinson – No multitasking for teams either: „[Geoffrey] Moore mentioned a common problem of companies: they ask project teams to focus on more than one thing at a time, and that this kills the team’s capability to do anything well. […] You get the picture: each project has to be focused on one goal.…

Gojko Adzic – Bug statistics are a waste of time: „A frequent excuse for bug reports is that the management needs them to know the current quality status. […] Alan Weiss explained that nicely in Million Dollar Consulting: „Quality, I patiently explain, is not the absence of something in management’s eyes, that is, defects, but…

Seth Godin – The future of the library: „There are one thousands things that could be done in a place like this, all built around one mission: take the world of data, combine it with the people in this community and create value. We need librarians more than we ever did. What we don’t need…

Seth Godin – Brand exceptionalism: „Brand humility is the only response to a fast-changing and competitive marketplace. The humble brand understands that it needs to re-earn attention, re-earn loyalty and reconnect with its audience as if every day is the first day.“

Joshua Duhl – The 13 Areas of Cost for a DAM System: „In almost every successful DAM installation (hosted or not) that I am aware of has 1-3 people (depending on the size and breadth of the organization) who is/are the DAM “master(s)” – more than a librarian or governance provider for the assets, this…

Seth Godin – Selling vs. inviting: „The salesperson’s job: Help people overcome their fear so they can commit to something they’ll end up glad they invested in. The goal of a marketer ought to be to make it so easy to be a salesperson, you’re merely an inviter. The new marketing is largely about this…

Joshua-Michéle Ross at O’Reilly Radar – Why speed matters: „Human beings live and operate in a constant state of now; we process extraordinary volumes of information in real time. The acceleration of technology is simply an effort to catch up to our zero-latency experience of being. Whenever given a choice, we will opt for a…

Ray Ozzie – Dawn of a New Day (his 2010 Microsoft farewell memo): „Complexity kills. Complexity sucks the life out of users, developers and IT. Complexity makes products difficult to plan, build, test and use. Complexity introduces security challenges. Complexity causes administrator frustration. And as time goes on and as software products mature – even…