Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Mike Hadlow – Heisenberg Developers (from 2014): “Software development […] is a creative and experimental process. […] Numerous studies have shown that effective creative work is best done by motivated autonomous experts. As developers we need to be free to try things out, see how they evolve, back away from bad decisions, maybe try several…

This article was written by Laurel Norris and published on the Digital Asset Management.com site (owned by DAM vendor Widen) on September 19, 2015, under the URL http://digitalassetmanagement.com/blog/dam-champ-tim-strehle/. Because that site’s blog posts are not available anymore, I’m publishing a copy on my blog. If you are active in the DAM community on Twitter, you’ve…

Today I watched Erik Dörnenburg’s excellent talk Architecture without Architects (recorded in December 2014). Some takeaways: Erik explains how software “architect” is, in several ways, not a good metaphor. “Town planner” or even “gardener” might be better metaphors, considering that software architecture constantly needs to be adapted and reshaped. He encourages vertical slicing with room…

I don’t travel much, so I’m extra happy that the publishing industry (where most of our customers are from) is going to meet in our home town this year: The WAN-IFRA World Publishing Expo 2015 (Twitter: #WPE15) takes place in Hamburg, Germany from October 5-7. Our company Digital Collections is exhibiting (booth 1.415), but I…

A pretty simple programming task: Find the most-used words in a text and count how often they’re used. (With the goal of later creating a pretty Wordle-like word cloud from this data.) I assumed there would be some existing tool or code, and Roger Howard said NLTK’s FreqDist() was “easy as pie”. So today I…