Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Skip Reedy – Projects With No Dates?: „The real reason is that we think we need the safety to protect getting that task done on time. That’s not what we need it for. We need safety to get the project done on time. We don’t need the safety in the task duration, we need the…

Joe Hewitt – Creative Tools: „The brilliance of Facebook management is encouraging everyone to take initiative, take risks, and wear as many hats as you can. I wish more tech companies operated like this.“

Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic – The Cloud’s My-Mom-Cleaned-My-Room Problem: „We all know the feeling of logging into Facebook / Tumblr / Twitter / Netflix / Pandora / Gmail and realizing that the interface has changed. Maybe the company’s internal testing says the new interface is better organized, but dang – we’d gotten used to…

Jeff Vera – Identifying Passionate Developers: „Passionate developers, whether quiet or loud, think. Keep them a bit off their balance by jumping around just a bit. If they’re not thinking about their answers, if only for a little bit, then you don’t have a passionate developer, you have a salesman.“ (Via entwickler.com.)

Adrian Short at guardian.co.uk – Why Facebook’s new Open Graph makes us all part of the web underclass: „You can turn your back on the social networks that matter in your field and be free and independent running your own site on your own domain. But increasingly that freedom is just the freedom to be…

Seth Godin – Talker’s block: „If you’re concerned with quality, of course, then not writing is not a problem, because zero is perfect and without defects. Shipping nothing is safe. The second best thing to zero is something better than bad.“

Seth Godin – „Please complain“: „If no one is listening, the thinking goes, then perhaps the annoyed will quietly go away. […] Whichever strategy you choose, you should choose. It’s the middle way that vexes… the pretending, the grudging acceptance, the insertion of many levels of filters.“

Chris Riley at aiim Capture – No guys, it’s IT vs. End-Users: „Avoid the end-users, create something they don’t need. Involve the end-users, increase the deployment time. […] IT should once again be more cutting edge then their end-users. Solving problems end-users did not even know they had. By doing so transforming their value from…

Richard Padley of Semantico – Triple bypass – What does the death of the semantic web mean for publishers?: „For years semantic web purists have been preaching that the future is all about RDF and triples. Yet, in the 12 years that theorists have been working on the semantic web, we’ve yet to see many…

Marco Arment – Customer culture: „People who aren’t willing or able to compromise on their needs regularly are much more likely to be Windows customers. The Windows message is much more palatable to corporate buyers, committees, middlemen, and people who don’t like to be told what’s best for them: „You can do whatever you want,…