Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Bruce Eckel – Hybridizing Java: „It’s not impossible to build GUI applications with Java, but it’s been 10 years and there are still installation hiccups with applets, Java WebStart, and regular applications. After 10 years, people don’t trust it anymore. If it’s not there after 10 years, then I’m going to go out on a…

Obie Fernandez – Some of My Software Opinions: „The best way to keep developers motivated and productive is to keep them focused on delivering business value.“

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Adam Pash – A guide for switching to a Mac: „When I bought my first Mac a few short months ago, it took a while to figure out how to do all the stuff I already knew how to do on my PC. While it’s my job to spend time figuring that sort of thing…

Smashing Magazine – 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without: „Over the last few years web-developers have written many articles about CSS and developed many useful techniques, which can save you a lot of time – of course, if you are able to find them in time. Below you’ll find a list of techniques we ,…

Tim O’Reilly at O’Reilly Radar – IBM Wants Many Eyes on Visualization: „IBM today announced Many Eyes, a site for sharing and commenting on visualizations. […] As with swivel, users can upload any data set, but the tools for visualizing and graphing the data are much richer.“

„Microsoft Photo Info allows photographers to add, change and delete common „metadata“ properties for digital photographs from inside Windows Explorer. When installed, a new „Photo Info“ item appears on the context menu for files selected in Windows Explorer. To use, simply select one or more image fiiles, right-click and choose „Photo Info“ to open the…

„IBM Lotus Quickr will provide ready-to-use team places where team members — inside or outside the firewall — can share information and collaborate on projects online. […] Users can access content in Lotus Quickr right from their familiar Microsoft Windows desktop. They simply drag documents from their C-drive folders to personal or shared Lotus Quickr…

Joel Spolsky – The Big Picture: „The only thing harder than trying to design software is trying to design software as a team. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in a meeting with even one or two other programmers, trying to figure out how something should work, and we’re just not getting…

Jon Udell – First have a great use experience, then have a great user experience: „We talk obsessively about the user experience, and we recognize that we invariably fail to make it as crisp and coherent as it should be. But user experience is an overloaded term. I propose that we unpack it into (at…