Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Stijn Debrouwere – We’re in the information business: „The goal is to make our content management system like a miniature world in a snowglobe. Not just a system that publishes text, but a system that talks like we do: it knows that an interview implies one or more interviewees. […] An issue is more than…

Andrew Stellman at O’Reilly Broadcast – Why project managers should care about development: „I’ve spent a lot of time over the years training project managers, and one thing I’ve heard from many of them is that a good project manager can manage anything. In other words, a project manager doesn’t need to know anything about…

Steve Radick at Enterprise 2.0 – Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You’re Creating?: „You gain trust and respect because they know that you’re dealing with the same issues they are. You’re struggling to access the site on your phone too. You’re not getting the alerts you signed up for either. You’re…

James Gosling on Oracle – Some more comments…: „It’s not so much that the game favors evil, but that the definition of „good“ is really twisted: Good adj: anything which increases the stock price. Considerations about employees, products, customers and community are all secondary. They only enter the equation as ways to achieve goal 1.…

Michael Hunger – On LEGO Powered Time-Tracking; My Daily Column: „As a child I hated these one-rowers as they were not useful in building stuff. But here and now they seemed a perfect fit. Small enough and in the right sizes. I chose a time partitioning of a quarter of an hour. So I can…

Adriaan Bloem at CMS Watch – What Exactly is IDOL, Anyway?: „But unfortunately, quite a few of Autonomy’s other customers weren’t quite prepared for it, and ended up unhappy with what they bought. Of course, it’s tempting to blame the vendor’s marketing and salesforce for this; but that’s a bit like accusing a tiger of…

Aaron Newton – How to Become a JavaScript Badass: „Release some of your own code. […] I almost consider it a red flag to see a resume without a url to github or something similar. […] If you blog constantly about what you are doing, what you are studying, you’ll find that people come to…

Michael Lopp interviewed by Mac Slocum at O’Reilly Radar – Geeks at work: „Leadership is really interesting to folks, inspiring people and being strategic. But those first two, organization and communication, sometimes turn into power trips for a lot of managers. They use information as a weapon. That is a huge violation to the geek…

„The Adobe Drive 2 Connect UI is an easy-to-use interface that allows users to connect to a Digital Asset Management (DAM) server. Once you are connected, Adobe Drive 2 offers simple, intuitive access to remote assets through the platform file browsers, platform dialogs such as Open and Save, Adobe Bridge, and directly from the menus…

Alan Pelz-Sharpe at CMS Watch – Document Asset Management?: „I would like to see us all think more clearly about what is worth managing, and more clearly delineating between junk and stuff that actually has business value. In a broad sense, all information management activities be they related to web, e-mail, records, or documents should…