Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Joel Spolsky – Capstone projects and time management: „College students in their final year have about 16 years of experience doing short projects and leaving everything until the last minute. […] This might be a neat opportunity to use Scrum. […] I’ve been blaming students, here, for lacking the discipline to do term-length projects throughout…

Theresa Neil at Designing Web Interfaces – iTunes Solves the Nested Clause Dilema: „Now, to my delight, Apple has tackled the last remaining frontier of predicate editors- the nested clause. My design partner, Jessica, found this when trying to pull together a playlist for her birthday last week. She needed something more complex than a…

Tim O’Reilly at O’Reilly Radar – Thoughts on the Whitehouse.gov switch to Drupal: „Yesterday, the new media team at the White House announced via the Associated Press that whitehouse.gov is now running on Drupal, the open source content management system. That Drupal implementation is in turn running on a Red Hat Linux system with Apache,…

Irina Guseva et al. – Things We Hate About Content Management: „Interfaces need a comfortable lived in feel. Content management is something people work with every day, it is their interface to their job. You meet people who hate the interface, and that makes their work a heap of pain. I have seen people who…

Kas Thomas at CMS Watch – Usability still improving — improvement still needed: „Dialogs are annoying, in general, because there’s usually very little actual „dialog“ happening in a dialog box; it’s more of a monolog. It’s the programmer who wrote the software telling you what to do next, rather than the reverse.“

Tim Bray – PubHubSunday: „I see PubSubHubbub, as much as anything, as an attempt to capture Twitter’s pattern of information flow in a reproducible, interoperable way. […] Hooking up a publishing system to the PubSubHubbub machinery is damn easy; I know because I just did it. You have to put <link> element(s) in your Atom…

Ben Lorica at O’Reilly Radar – Mechanical Turk app on the iPhone Provides Work for Refugees: „The turks in the refugee camps are recent graduates of Samasource’s computer training program. Rather than sitting idly while they wait to be employed, they earn money performing simple computer tasks for real companies. On the other hand, Give…

Gojko Adzic cites Elisabeth Hendrikson’s keynote at the Agile Testing Days – Seven key agile testing practices for releasable software: „Agile software teams deliver value in the form of releasable software at frequent regular intervals (at least monthly), at a sustainable pace, while adapting to the changing needs of the business. […] Bottom line is…

Elad Elrom at InsideRIA – AIR 2 Enhancements Complete Overview: „File promises is a new API (URLFilePromise) that allows you to access resources at a certain URL and drag them out of the AIR application as a file promise into the local machine. Once the files are dropped the request will be made to download…

Ajaxian – View Source Tutorial: Fancy Web Page Using HTML5, CSS, and SVG: „I love this example because it shows a few things. First, that SVG is definitely not dead; this works on every browser but IE — that doesn’t sound like a dead technology to me. Second, this example is much better done with…