Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Naresh Sarwan at Digital Asset Management News – Box.net Announces Product Updates: Potential Threat To DAM Vendors?: „With some DAM vendors eager to tout the benefits of SaaS as a way to get around draconian IT departments and reduce deployment headaches, SaaS inevitably encourages increased commoditisation and makes it easier for the lower cost providers…

Dave Winer – The journo-programmer: „Writing code, like writing long essays like this one, is not something you can do in an environment with lots of interruptions. One interruption at the wrong time can set you back by hours as the map falls out of your head. Programming and writing are both intellectual acts. So…

Jack Vinson points to Solitude and Leadership by William Deresiewicz – Can’t get quality thinking when you are multitasking: „Deresiewicz makes the connection to one’s ability to think and develop their own opinions and thoughts on a matter. Multitasking prevents this, just as it damages quality and safety. And the solution is similar: give yourself…

Fast Company – What Is a Curator in Chief?: „Machines may evolve, but they’ll never have a human sense of relevance. „As curator, I need „gut instinct“. As I’m scanning the web (with our tools), I sometimes find sources or articles that I think are valuable–even though they might not be a perfect match to…

Yee Lee – How Facebook Ships Code: „very engineering driven culture. ”product managers are essentially useless here.” is a quote from an engineer. engineers can modify specs mid-process, re-order work projects, and inject new feature ideas anytime. […] they really want engineers to publicly own products and be the main point of contact for the…

Barb Mosher at CMSWire – Poll Results: Usability is Top Digital Asset Management (DAM) Challenge: „We recently wrapped up a poll exploring our readership’s Digital Asset Management challenges. The question was: What’s your biggest Digital Asset Management challenge? The top response? Usability. Are you surprised? We discussed the poll results with a few DAM specialists,…

Andrew Stellman – Confessions of a jerk: „I perfected all of the programmer stonewalling tricks to get people to stop asking me questions: interrupting people with pedantic questions before they’d barely started getting to the point, sending people back with half-answers so I didn’t have to think through the question I was being asked, answering…

Seth Godin – In defense of RSS: „RSS is quiet and fast and professional and largely hype-free. Perhaps that’s why it’s not the flavor of the day.“

Dave Winer – What will become of Twitter?: „Twitter is a wonderful solution to many of the problems we had with RSS, most importantly, how to go from the impulse to subscribe to having actually subscribed. In Twitter it’s one click. In RSS, it’s an unpredictable number of complex clicks. That in a nutshell is…

Patrick McKenzie – Staging Servers, Source Control & Deploy Workflows, And Other Stuff Nobody Teaches You: „Setting up a staging server should be easy. If it is not easy, you already have a problem in your infrastructure, you just don’t know it yet: you’ve cobbled together your production server over time, usually by manually SSHing…