Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

You’re my colleague, or my boss. I wish you would do something, and we both can agree that it’s a good thing to do. What does it take you to actually start doing it? Well, 1) you need to know about it, 2) you need to be able to do it, 3) you have to…

Scott Adams – The Management-free Organization: “Our decision-making so far seems to follow a rational model that goes like this: 1. We discuss the question (by email or Skype). 2. Everyone gives an opinion or adds information. 3. The smartest choice becomes obvious to all. 4. The end. That decision-making model might not work in…

James Whittaker – The Anti Meeting Culture: “Vote with your feet by walking away from the more useless meetings. Just don’t go to those meetings where the organizer holds court. Anyone who likes the sound of their own voice that much doesn’t deserve your attendance. Build disdain for meetings into your DNA so that every…

Jon Udell – Networks of first-class peers: “It is possible for various of our avatars — our websites, our blogs, our calendars — to represent us as first-class peers. That means: – They use domain names that we own – They converse with other peers in ways that we enable and can control – They…

Ralph Windsor at DAM News – Why Small Vendors Build Better DAM Software – The Implications For The DAM Value Chain: “If you are the boss of a DAM vendor, you are going to be intimately aware exactly what is happening with a good number (possibly all) of your clients – certainly all the key…

David Diamond on CMSWire – God Help Me, I’m a DAM Geek: “After two or three minutes of ample introspection, I realized that my passion was not actually about DAM (thank God). My passion is about quality content and the good things people do with the content they manage via their DAMs. […] I once…

I’m currently investigating a new architecture for our Web app user interfaces. My JavaScript skills had been badly-neglected, now I’m trying to catch up and form opinions on how to build elements that are reusable across pages and different UIs. Here’s my (still emerging) rule set: Build components, not pages. Components can consist of other…