Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Eric Ries – Validated learning about customers: „The problem stems from selling each customer a custom one-time product. This is the magic of sales: by learning about each customer in-depth, they can convince each of them that this product would solve serious problems. That leads to cashing many checks. […] They are closing orders. They…

I keep forgetting how to get started with the wonderful rrdtool, so here’s a note to myself for the next time (and here’s the tutorial)… I’m creating a database with these characteristics: a single, once every 10 minute measured gauge named „num“ which is OK with up to 20 minute gaps between values 10 minute…

„EtherPad lets multiple people work on the same text simultaneously. […] Insanely useful for Meeting notes, Conference calls. […] No account required. The only really real-time collaborative editor on the web.“

Martin Kelley at O’Reilly Broadcast – Will Facebook (all but) replace corporate websites?: „With the rise of the real-time update streams being popularized by Facebook, Twitter and FriendFeed, users are becoming accustomed to a constantly-changing flow of pictures, videos and new snippets. Even actively-maintained websites seem locked in languid stupor in comparison. […] This will…

Scott Adams – How I Saved Newspapers: „The key is to get kids interested in the online version of the super-local news. Kids care about themselves more than they care about anything else in the world. […] With this concept the local newspaper extends their business model to include working with schools and youth sports…

Tim Bray – Al3x, Meet Ted: „At this point I appeal to Sturgeon’s Law, usually stated as “95% of everything is crap”. The key thing is, you have to do some mental filtering and look at the other 5%. The Internet helps via PageRank and friends, but independent thinking is required too: make your own…

InfoQ interview – Tim Bray on the Future of the Web: „When the web came along people shriked with glee and universally abandoned all those rich immersive responsive pre-internet applications and ran into the arms of the web. […] Over the years since then I have regularly and steadily heard them saying: „We need something…

Jakob Nielsen – Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well: „Mega drop-downs make it easy to use icons and pictures when appropriate. And, even if you stick to text alone, you have richer typography at your disposal (letting you differentiate link sizes according to their importance, for example).“

Christopher Jones – PHP OCI8 Signal Handling and –enable-sigchild: „Only if you see defunct „zombie“ Oracle server processes then start PHP/Apache with the Oracle Net option BEQUEATH_DETACH=YES in your sqlnet.ora, or, to keep the setting specific to PHP, set your environment starting Apache. […] You should never need to configure PHP with –enable-sigchild or set…

Paul Graham – Cities and Ambition: „One of the exhilarating things about coming back to Cambridge every spring is walking through the streets at dusk, when you can see into the houses. When you walk through Palo Alto in the evening, you see nothing but the blue glow of TVs. In Cambridge you see shelves…