Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Robert Passarella at O’Reilly Radar – Rolling Your Own Newsroom: „What I like about Google’s Reader is the ability to tag items and then turn those tags into feeds for friends or inputs to other applications, like Yahoo Pipes. As I started playing with tags and feeds, I realized that you could create a real…

Tim Bray – Branch Out: „Developers of the world: real deep design skill is rare, but there are a few principles of design and color that, if you follow them, will keep you mostly out of trouble and produce something that may not seduce the viewer’s eye but on the other hand won’t revolt it.…

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Tim Bray – Free Software Now: „When business is already hurting, up-front software license fees hurt especially hard, and I just don’t believe that Enterprise Software, as currently priced, has much future, in the near term anyhow. […] The drum that Jonathan has been pounding on ever since I got here about “Monetization at the…

Tim Bray – A Good Time for Agility: „But just because times are tough doesn’t mean we’re going to stop developing projects. It just means we have to be agile about it.“

Leslie Michael Orchard – Queue everything and delight everyone: „And, in the end, that’s really the purpose of a web-based content creation interface—accepting something as quickly as possible to make the user happy enough to continue submitting more. The other part of the user interface, retrieval, serves simply to get the original content distributed as…

The Metadata Working Group – Specifications: „The content overlap between the most commonly used standards can result in some confusion. This document describes how best to use existing standards such as Exif, IPTC, and XMP to address the key organizational metadata questions that most consumers have.“ An excerpt from the Guidelines for Handling Image Metadata…

Woork – 10 Handwritten fonts you can’t miss: „This is a list of my preferred Handwritten fonts I often use in my design projects. I included a link to download each font apart and some suggest about how you can use them.“

Mark Logic CEO Dave Kellogg (back in 2005) – Uh, Oh – It’s Magic: „I’ll tell you one thing that I think is wrong with search: magic. If there’s one lesson I learned in 20+ years in the data world, it’s that magic doesn’t sell. Customers don’t like magic. […] I chuckle when I see…

Joel Spolsky – Password management finally possible: „On all your Windows computers, install PasswordSafe. […] Store the file in your DropBox folder.“ On the Mac, you can use either Password Gorilla or PasswordSafeSWT.