Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Nick Bradbury – If You Want to Write Useful Software, You Have to Do Tech Support: „If you really want to write useful software, stop spending all your time keeping up with technology. Don’t worry if your resume isn’t filled with the latest buzzwords. Instead, invest your time in talking with your customers. They don’t…

Rich Rosen at O’Reilly Broadcast – Gmail’s Labels Now More Like Folders: A Good Thing?: „The common wisdom is that marking things with tags or labels (so you can later search for them by tag) is better than organizing them hierarchically into folders. […] The problem is that people don’t seem to „get“ labels or…

Derek Sivers – Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them.: „Four different tests of 63 people found that those who kept their intentions private were more likely to achieve them than those who made them public and were acknowledged by others. Once you’ve told people of your intentions, it gives…

Doc Searls – Beyond celebrity obsession: „The Net maximizes the endlessness of choice about how we spend our time. It also maximizes many kinds of productiveness. Nearly all the code we are using, right now, to do stuff on the Net, was written by many collaborators across many distances. Some were obsessing about what they…

Mark Sigal – Nine Essential Truths for Entrepreneurial Success: „Make sure that your product planning process is defined in a way that codifies specific use cases supported by clear workflows (in terms of click steps), backed by wireframes that express same. This is the ultimate ‚rubber meets the road‘ moment when you realize that you…

Tim Bray – The Internet’s Payload: „Social networking gives me the warm-and-fuzzies and YouTube shows me what happened today in Iran, but action only comes from understanding and understanding only comes from explanation and explanation only happens in words. […] And by the way, I’d rather have the text of Clay’s speech than the video.…

Gojko Adzic – Eric Evans: Why do efforts to replace legacy systems fail?: „Starting from a proposition that “not all of a large system will be well designed”, Evans suggested identifying and focusing on the core domain – a very small piece of software that actually makes the system really worth writing, something that brings…

Kas Thomas at CMS Watch – Vignette bets big on beta-SaaS: „For getting a handle on major new functionalities — and for finding out quickly whether your content contributors, admins, power users, and developers are going to run into any showstoppers — the VVE approach will likely prove useful. Meanwhile, it’s a potential cost- and…

Jeff Atwood – Url Shorteners: Destroying the Web Since 2002: „The web is little more than a maze of hyperlinks, and if you can insert yourself as an intermediary in that maze, you can transform or undermine the experience in fundamental ways. […] Every tiny URL is another baby step towards destroying the web as…

Tim O’Reilly quotes Jeff Bezos – Jeff Bezos at Wired Disruptive by Design conference: „You’ve got to be willing to learn new skills if your customers need you to have those skills.“