Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Simon Wardley at O’Reilly Radar – Karmic Koalas Love Eucalyptus: „Rule 2: I want to easily migrate the service from my infrastructure to a cloud provider and vice versa with a few clicks of a button.“

Eric Ries – Work in small batches: „It turns out that organizations get better at those things that they do very often. So when we start checking in code more often, release more often, or conduct more frequent design reviews, we can actually do a lot to make those steps dramatically more efficient.“

Dan McCreary at O’Reilly Broadcast – How Entity Extraction is Fueling the Semantic Web Fire: „I have been very impressed at the scope and depth of some of the new OpenSource entity extraction tools as well as the robustness of commercial products. I thought I would discuss this since these technologies could start to move…

Aaron Conran – Pixel Bender Explorer: Bending Ext AIR Apps: „Pixel Bender is an exciting new technology by Adobe which brings video and image processing capabilities to the flash runtime. It allows you to create and apply filters to ‘bend’ pixels and create compelling animations which have never been possible in an HTML environment. Because…

James Turner interviews Andrew Huang at O’Reilly Radar – Inside Factory China: „One of the reasons why I like to go out on the floor to China is I like to make sure that all the people that we work with are treated well and humanely, right? So I actually stay in the factory dorms…

Scott Adams – Quality Follows Popularity: „If you are planning to create some business or other form of entertainment, you will need quality at some point to succeed. But what is more important than quality in the beginning is some intangible element that makes your project inherently interesting before anyone has even sampled it. That…

Vaughan at Mind Hacks – The myth of the concentration oasis: „The past, and for most people on the planet, the present, have never been an oasis of mental calm and creativity. And anyone who thinks they have it hard because people keep emailing them should trying bringing up a room of kids with nothing…

Matt Linderman at Signal vs. Noise – Going rogue inside a big company (a la Best Buy): „Pick something and do it under the radar. Create something in a few weeks that normally takes a few months. […] Amazing what a difference a couple of rogue employees can make. If these guys can do it…

Henrik de Gyor at Digital Asset Management – Can a DAM handle Rights Managed assets?: „Can a DAM handle Rights Managed assets? This is far more than an issue of storing Rights Managed assets in a DAM and associating some metadata which state the terms of the asset. […] What if you have multiple licenses…

Michael Jon Jensen at O’Reilly Radar – For-Profit, Non-Profit, and Scary Humor: „Because the for-profit sector has few truly long-term interests, on the timescale of the unfolding disaster. („Human survival is a bonus, but that’s twenty years out. What about next quarter’s report?“) Further, the scale and scope of the impending collapse will require a…