Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Aaron Greenspan – Why Google Bothered to Appeal a $761 Small Claims Case (and Won): „Google has more access to information about people than virtually any company on the planet, yet despite its vast resources, it found it more prudent to fabricate disparaging innuendo about me before a judge. The sole purpose was to damage…

jQuery TOOLS – The missing UI library for the Web: „What you really need are tabs, tooltips, accordions, overlays, high usability, striking visual effects and all those „web 2.0“ goodies that you have seen on your favourite websites. This library contains six of the most useful JavaScript tools available for today’s website.“

Jon Udell – Rebooting my 2002-2006 archive: „I’m glad I’m not in publishing anymore. It turns out to be a lousy way to keep your stuff published.“

Enterprise Search – Enterprise search doesn’t mean mortgaging the farm: „So before you decide you need to budget a half million dollars or more for search, consider what Walter Underwood, chief architect of Ultraseek and now search evangelist at Netflix once told me. Paraphrasing: “You can download Solr then spend a ton of money customizing…

Scott Adams – Teamwork: „The dominant team members will get their way over the objections of the meek, no matter how competent the meek might be. […] All meetings last longer than they should.“

Eric Ries – Fear is the mind-killer: „When a new engineer started at IMVU, I had a simple rule: they had to ship code to production on their first day. […] For some, this was an absolutely terrifying experience. „What if I take the site down?!“ was a common refrain. I tried to make sure…

David Ascher – Getting insight into one’s own email: „The “start page”, which makes a lot of sense in Firefox, never made a huge amount of sense to me in Thunderbird. In particular, it’s shown only when a folder is selected, and no message is selected. That’s hardly a logical time to show the (colorful,…

Tim Bray – Less Like Oration: „The Net has had a twofold effect on short-form publishing: First, it’s cheap, verging on free. Second, it enjoys many routes to potentially large audiences. It’s the second that’s interesting. Until recently, you simply couldn’t find a large audience for your thoughts unless you had books on shelves in…

Adam Shand – Lessons Learned from Previous Employment: „Surviving the loss of a key person, is never as hard as you think it will be. […] The one thing that managers hate, more than anything else, is being surprised. […] Everything takes longer than you expect. Lots longer. […] One of the primary jobs of…

Timothy M. O’Brien at O’Reilly Radar – Google Announces Support for Microformats and RDFa: „On Tuesday, Google introduced a feature called Rich Snippets which provides users with a convenient summary of a search result at a glance. They have been experimenting with microformats and RDFa, and are officially introducing the feature and allowing more sites…