Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Sean McGrath at ITworld – Unicode: „Let us start by looking at four main variables in the space : language, country, culture and technology. Language. Let us take that one first. How hard can that be? […] Oh dear, when we hit the Middle East we hit languages that drive the wrong way on the…

Scott Adams – The Nonfussy Pill: „The new poverty is likely to be different from anything that came before. Imagine a world where even the poor have good Internet access and universal healthcare. If you were healthy and could use the Internet to find everything else you needed, from borrowing a tool to organizing a…

Scott Adams – Google Is My Doctor: „Long story short, the operation I read about wasn’t as promising as the article suggested, but the final surgeon in my travels had his own version of surgery that had a good track record. I tried it, and now my voice is normal. I never would have found…

chromatic at O’Reilly Broadcast – The RIA and the Polyglot VM: „Of course, the obvious problem with this approach [of Silverlight, JavaFX, and Adobe AIR] is that a big blob of proprietary goo is only a solution for people who want to (or have permission to) get that goo all over their machines. Remember how…

Niels Hufnagl im SNAPlog – Eine Art LDAP für Metadaten?: „Ein halbes Jahr später. Gegen den Artikel wurde juristisch vorgegangen und dummerweise auch noch zu recht. Das kann vorkommen. Wer weiß jetzt noch, an welche Systeme er denken muß, wenn er den Artikel unternehmensweit sperren möchte? […] Mir kam bei der Diskussion so der Gedanke,…

Joel Spolsky at Inc.com – How Hard Could It Be?: My Style of Servant Leadership: „Our company was built on the idea of hiring smart and productive people and then clearing the decks. The late, great minicomputer company Digital Equipment Corporation, better known as DEC, was so adamant about this idea that people in the…

„unoconv converts between any document format that OpenOffice understands. It uses OpenOffice’s UNO bindings for non-interactive conversion of documents. Converts between different document formats that OpenOffice understands OpenOffice can export to about 100 different document formats Can be used for batch processing […] Can be used in a client/server environment to process documents centrally“

Monty Widenius – Oops, we did it again (MySQL 5.1 released as GA with crashing bugs): „We have changed the release model so that instead of focusing on quality and features our release is now defined by timeliness and features. Quality is not regarded to be that important.“

Paul Graham – The Other Half of „Artists Ship“: „Programmers are unlike many types of workers in that the best ones actually prefer to work hard. This doesn’t seem to be the case in most types of work. […] If you have an idea for a new feature in the morning, you can write it…

Signal vs. Noise – Hire managers of one: „A manager of one is someone who comes up with their own goals and executes them. They don’t need heavy direction. They don’t need daily check-ins. They do what a manager would do — set the tone, assign items, determine what needs to get done, etc. —…