Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Andrew Stellman – Inflict bad UX on users you secretly hate: „You’d be surprised at how often programmers are completely unaware that they have serious UX [user experience] and usability problems. Just a few days ago, someone told me, “Our users are using our software, so we don’t have any usability issues!” One of my…

Signal vs. Noise cites David Heinemeier Hansson – Quote: The number one competitor we have in our…: „People are organizing through email. They’re keeping track of their notes through email. They’re doing all this stuff through email. And email is incredibly simple, basically just a text box that you can send to other people or…

Linda Stone at O’Reilly Radar – Why „Delivering Happiness“ is a must read: „At many companies, software developers are rewarded for knocking out the list of features and cranking toward the release date with no emphasis on the quality of the feature being checked. Does it work? Check. Tests ran? Check. Is anyone asking if…

Google News Blog – Credit where credit is due: „News publishers and readers both benefit when journalists get proper credit for their work. That can be difficult, with news spreading so quickly and many websites syndicating articles to others. That’s why we’re experimenting with two new metatags for Google News: syndication-source and original-source. Each of…

Seth Godin – Sure, but what’s the hard part?: „Hard is not about sweat or time, hard is about finishing the rare, valuable, risky task that few complete. Don’t tell me you want to launch a line of spices but don’t want to make sales calls to supermarket buyers. That’s the hard part.“

Bianca Male tells the story of Sachin Agarwal at Business Insider – 8 Management Lessons I Learned Working At Apple: „A tech company should be run by engineers, not managers. […] From its lack of bureaucracy within projects, to its engineer-focused culture, to its emphasis on passionate and loyal employees, the huge company has maintained…

Simon Phipps at ComputerWorld UK – The End Of The Road For Web Services: „In the end Web Services became an intranet tool for most uses, rendering the „W“ incorrect even if WS* will be with enterprise developers for years to come as a kind of architectural COBOL. Whatever other origins it had, the whole…

Matt Mullenweg – 1.0 is the Loneliest Number: „Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you’ve created until it’s out there. That means every moment you’re working on something without it being in the public it’s actually dying, deprived of the oxygen…

Rob Walling – Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched: „If you’ve not working directly with at least two customers you have no idea if what you’re building is adding value. Or a total waste of time.“

Werner Vogels of Amazon.com in a blog comment back in 2006: „The best way to completely automate operations is to have to developers be responsible for running the software they develop. It is painful at times, but also means considerable creativity gets applied to a very important aspect of the software stack. It also brings…