Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Alex Williams at ReadWriteEnterprise on a Lucene Revolution presentation of IDC senior analyst Hadley Reynolds – A Search Market Craters – Welcome to the App Diaspora: „After the collapse of the economy two years ago, a market force took effect that has led to the „cratering,“ of a small but telling sector of the enterprise…

Tony Byrne at the Real Story Group blog – Beware big vendors if you care about viability: „Two decades and much gray hair later, I’ve come to the conclusion that the very biggest vendors can actually carry the highest risks in terms of product continuity. IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, EMC, Google, and SAP aren’t going to…

GetApp.com – Why SaaS Vendors and Buyers Need to Care About APIs: „Saas vendors should offer open APIs to integrate with other products and make the life of their clients easier and safer. As John Musser, founder of ProgrammableWeb.com, recently said: “Not having an API in 2010 is like not having a web site in…

Pingdom – REST in peace, SOAP: „Looks like the tide of the web API protocol war (if there ever was one) has shifted firmly in REST’s favor while SOAP has been forced back. Web developers have cast their votes, they want RESTful APIs.“ (Via Tim Bray.)

Seth Godin – Demonstrating strength: „Risking the appearance of weakness takes strength. And the market knows it.“

David Veksler – Some lesser-known truths about programming: „Software rot is unavoidable, but programmers who fail to take conceptual integrity into consideration create software that rots so so fast that it becomes worthless before it is even completed. […] Good programmers think about their work 24/7. They write their most important code in the shower…

Jesus Diaz at Gizmodo – This Is How Much Apple Has Changed In a Decade: „Back then, Steve Jobs preached the new iMac as the center of your digital life, the internet machine. Now, the internet machine fits in your pocket. But with sixteen times the memory, eight times the storage, and more than double…

all things cataloged – Data, not records: „Cataloging huge amounts of 19th century material, I often wonder: what if users had a link to the year of publication (e.g. from Wikipedia) that could provide some background information about what happened that year and could assist them in understanding the historical situation and the context a…

Eric Ries – The visionary’s lament: „Don’t try and change the vision every time you get new data. Instead, get out of the building and look for customers for whom your product vision is a slam-dunk fit. […] Identify an acute pain point that others don’t see. It’s important to specify the vision as much…

Intermittent Intelligence – You’re a developer, so why do you work for someone else?: „Never in modern history has it been so easy to create something from scratch, with little or no capital and a marketing model that is limited only by your imagination. […] In the evening, when the kids have gone to bed…