Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

James Turner at O’Reilly ONLamp – The Worthlessness of Code: „When management talks about the value of code, they’re really talking about the value of the experience that the engineers gained by developing the code, as expressed in the code. The problem is, most companies let the value walk out the door (either through layoffs…

Paul Graham – You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss: „A group of 10 people within a large organization is a kind of fake tribe. The number of people you interact with is about right. But something is missing: individual initiative. Tribes of hunter-gatherers have more freedom. The leaders have a little more power than…

Andi Gutmans – Java is losing the battle for the modern Web. Can the JVM save the vendors?: „Project Zero’s Chief Architect is one of the first IBMers to admit in public that Java today can be considered as a system language and is not desirable for building RESTful Web applications which is Project Zero’s…

Tom White – „Disks have become tapes“: „In essence MapReduce works by repeatedly sorting and merging data that is streamed to and from disk at the transfer rate of the disk. Contrast this to accessing data from a relational database that operates at the seek rate of the disk.“ (Via Nat Torkington at O’Reilly Radar.)

Simon Phipps – The Adoption-Led Market: „Traditionally, the process of acquiring software has involved a request for proposal from vendors against a customer specification. Vendors then make proposals, submit prototypes, contend for business. In smaller bids, an evaluation team considers trial versions, makes evaluations, makes proposals to management. Eventually software is selected and paid for.…

Charles Handy at Marketplace – Bigger isn’t always better for business: „If I were to visit a symphony orchestra and ask them about their growth plans for the future, how would they respond? They would talk about their plans to extend their repertoire and to bring their work to new audiences, not about increasing the…

Jon Udell – Ward Cunningham’s Visible Workings: „This isn’t just an innovative approach to software testing and workflow visualization. It’s also a radical statement about business process transparency. For most of us, most of the time, business systems are black boxes whose internal workings we can only discern in the outcomes of our (often painful)…