Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Ben Horowitz back in 1996 – Good product manager, bad product manager: “Good product managers know the market, the product, the product line and the competition extremely well and operate from a strong basis of knowledge and confidence. […] Bad product managers have lots of excuses. Not enough funding, the engineering manager is an idiot,…

Edmund Jorgensen – Speeding Up Your Engineering Org, Part I: Beyond the Cost Center Mentality: “You may have shifted your efforts from the impossible task of making the org go faster to the thankless but crucial job of jealously guarding how engineers spend their time—because as it takes longer and longer to get even simple…

Matt Ellis – Singing the Praises of Chorus: “Everyone is singing the praises for Chorus, Vox Media’s own CMS. […] Chorus is doing most of the duties of online journalists for them! It conducts automatic word scans, then finds and links it to other related texts. It also brings up relevant (and licensed) photos and…

Ralph Windsor – The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Enterprise DAM: “The problems of each group of users are too diverse for one single solution to be able to answer them all. What invariably happens is either the software becomes bloated and buggy as conflicting needs clash with each other and the developers try…

I’m working in Digital Asset Management and love reading DAM news, and learning about technology, products, and trends. It took me a while to find all the sources for DAM information. If you’d like to dive into the world of DAM news too, you can spare most of that work by starting with my Planet…

Since July 2011, I’ve been archiving interesting Web pages in my personal instance of DC-X (the Digital Asset Management system our company is building). My archive contains 12,300 pages already and is growing daily. I’m totally in love with this feature: It’s my “private file and library” (a quote from Vannevar Bush’s 1945 As We…