Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

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…

Paul Graham – Keep Your Identity Small: „Anything else people make can be well or badly designed; why should this be uniquely impossible for programming languages? And indeed, you can have a fruitful discussion about the relative merits of programming languages, so long as you exclude people who respond from identity. […] The most intriguing…

Robert Stackowiak at O’Reilly Broadcast – Oracle Set-up & Management of HP Oracle Database Machine: „Much of the advertising for the HP Oracle Database Machine is about performance speedup. In real workload tests, many of Oracle’s customers are seeing far more than ten times performance improvement. […] Essentially, buyers of the platform need to choose…

Tony Byrne at CMS Watch – The case against Flex-based application UIs: „Flex applications are prone to the same memory leaks and CPU spikes that bedeviled applets for years. To be sure, I’ve seen some fat and ugly JavaScript-based interfaces too, but at least everyone can debug those openly.“