Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Rick Yagodich (@think_info) on the Contentful blog – The Author Comes First: “Any time a big company buys an enterprise CMS, they are easily spending seven figures on the licenses and then another six on subscription fees. To customize this CMS to do something even vaguely resembling what the buyer wants is another seven figure…

While we’re gathering ideas for the next generation of our DAM product’s user interface, we’re taking the opportunity to reflect on the system architecture of our DAM software. It’s currently a monolithic architecture: All of the user interface and back-end features are implemented within a single software system, and based on one large database. This…

Dave Camp’s e-mail about the future direction of Mozilla Firefox – Three Pillars: “Uncompromised Quality We’ve started putting together a program inartfully named “Great or Dead”. Every feature in the browser should be polished, functional, and a joy to use. Where we can’t get it to that state, we shouldn’t do it at all. In…

Just a quick update to my previous schema.org DAM markup example. That example was in RDF/XML, but RDFa – RDF markup embedded in HTML – is pretty interesting as well, so here’s the same record in HTML+RDFa. Click here to see that markup rendered by your browser. The benefit of RDFa is that it’s human…

Like many other programmers, I always have a couple of side projects going on. My main motivation is learning. While I do learn a lot during work hours, I have ideas and questions I want to follow up on regardless of business priorities. And sometimes I want to take off my programmer hat and do…