2020-03-19: Today I drew my first UML diagram – and learning how to do it took only 15 minutes (this video + a quick Google search): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI6lqHOVHic
2020-03-18: I’ll never understand why IT (& media) pros rely so much on oral tradition. Write down the most important information, and share it with others (who weren’t present, or will forget). Easy and powerful. “IT” = making good use of Technology to organize and share Information, right?
2020-03-17: I’m learning a lot about @openshift these days. Creating a Job with access to Storage seems a bit tricky but I was lucky to find this excellent blog post: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/transferring-files-in-and-out-of-containers-in-openshift-part-3
2020-03-17: The Corona epidemic is a turbo boost for disruptive innovation. Terribly outdated analog processes, refusal to communicate digitally and disregard for remote work which have plagued us for years are suddenly given top priority, and changed in mere days.
2020-03-16: Most of our communication now relies on @MicrosoftTeams, which is mostly broken today 🙁 https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/16/21181300/microsoft-teams-down-outage-europe-remote-working-coronavirus
2020-03-06: I know from first-hand experience how many years go into building a #DAM product. Now I’m learning what it’s like to use (and permanently live with) our choice of a DAM product as a customer. Not sure which side I prefer; it’s hard work on both sides.
2020-03-06: I need to perform a simple operation on a server. You 1) didn’t document the appropriate command: I’ll ask you to do it 2) documented the command but didn’t keep docs up-to-date: I’ll try, break things & ask you to fix it 3) maintain docs: I can do it. Sadly, 3) is the exception.
2020-03-06: My favorite password manager (macOS and iOS): @StrongboxSafe https://strongboxsafe.com/
2020-03-04: “Instead of flowing the data from domains into a centrally owned data lake or platform, domains need to host and serve their domain datasets in an easily consumable way.” https://martinfowler.com/articles/data-monolith-to-mesh.html
2020-03-02: There’s a special case where our #DAM system returns the same results for “a AND b” as for “a NOT b”. Should be fun to investigate.
2020-05-28: Vendor confirms this is reproducible, and an unavoidable side effect of combining the results of multiple (and different, depending on the query) analyzers, which are run on the query for better “search possibilities”. Boolean logic is a thing of the past, it seems 😉
2020-02-23: „You can’t not make things dirty when you cook, but if you don’t clean things quickly, muck dries up, is harder to remove, and all the dirty stuff gets in the way of cooking the next dish.“ https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-quality-worth-cost.html
2020-02-22: “We never rushed. We never cut corners. […] When the work is ‚accepted,‘ it’s done. The entire team can stop thinking about it.” https://curiousduck.io/posts/collections/2023-02-03-momentum-over-urgency/
2020-02-21: S. 43 der @derspiegel-Standards ist für mich (ITler und Dokumentar) am interessantesten: „Im neuen Produktionssystem muss es möglich sein, [Quellenverweise] direkt zu integrieren.“ Ein Redaktionssystem mit Annotationen und Materialsammlung? ❤️ https://www.spiegel.de/backstage/nach-diesen-standards-arbeitet-der-spiegel-a-d80c52f5-fa6e-4463-a8de-513f15fcb29b
2020-02-21: 7 years ago, I proposed putting essential metadata for each licensable image on the Web, then “letting the search engine crawlers do their job”: /tim/weblog/archives/2013/05/26/1608/ Finally, this dream is coming true: https://iptc.org/news/announcing-googles-licensable-images-developer-release/
2020-02-20: I almost missed out on something huge: the #DAM system Open Specification. Looking forward to reading it thoroughly: https://digitalassetmanagementnews.org/industry-standards/digital-asset-management-systems-an-open-specification/
2020-02-20: So true: „Tech is a fashion industry.“ https://www.infoworld.com/article/2255968/do-you-really-need-kubernetes.html
2020-02-16: #DAM article from December: “My 2020 Digital Asset Management (DAM) wish list” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-2020-digital-asset-management-dam-wish-list-philip-axmann/ by @ChezPAX of @Picturepark
2020-02-13: „Part of an enterprise IA is developing and maturing a common data model […] Describe the processes, products, customers and other “entities” in the organization and their relationships in a way that is consistent and reusable across systems.“ https://www.cmswire.com/digital-experience/how-information-architecture-improves-customer-experience/
2020-02-07: That’s where I’ll be on Monday – not in an official mission; just curious to learn about what I think is pretty exciting technology: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/process-automation-forum-by-camunda-hamburg-registrierung-83967120919
2020-01-31: Vollständige Dokumentation und Öffnung des Systems“ klingt gut, gern auch für alle unsere IT-Systeme 🙂 https://devspiegel.medium.com/nicht-nur-bunte-pixel-warum-das-neue-gesicht-des-digitalen-spiegel-mehr-als-ein-redesign-ist-b99dd0876344
2020-01-24: Most tools by and for IT specialists are simply ugly – but that one PRTG monitoring setup seems to be intentionally designed to confuse, to disguise all useful information, and be as user-hostile as possible. Just what you need when there’s a production system emergency…
2020-01-17: I ❤️ my new iPad. At work, it has fully replaced my taking notes on paper (w/ Pencil and @msonenote). During my commute, I read the digital @abendblatt. And in my role as hobby musician, @OnSongApp is so much nicer than paper sheet music.
2020-01-16: “Customer care” vs caring for your image: Ask an important question via the official, private channel, get a brash answer days later. Ask via a public channel, get an immediate response indicating that you’ve hurt their feelings, their public image, and your relationship.
2020-01-11: „In unsere neue Architektur lassen sich über Schnittstellen jedoch auch Print-Programme wie InDesign und Woodwing integrieren. Nach zweieinhalb Jahren Arbeit am Aufbau von Polygon wird als nächstes diese Modernisierung die Techlab und die IT der SPIEGEL-Gruppe beschäftigen.“ https://devspiegel.medium.com/polygon-wie-die-modulare-architektur-des-neuen-digitalen-spiegel-funktioniert-e6e8f90d7915
2020-01-11: Your mediocre app „doing its job“ is no proof that „mediocrity works“. It‘s not falling apart all the time only because you built it on a stack of excellent, close-to-perfection, „it‘ll be ready when it‘s ready“ components (mostly open source).
2020-01-09: Infinite scrolling proves to be the wrong choice for DAM system search results. Salespeople and casual users like it, but power users and UX experts (“there are only a few instances where infinite scrolling is effective”) agree that pagination is better. /tim/weblog/archives/2014/01/20/1682/
2020-01-08: Heute in der SPIEGEL-Kantine zum #NextGen Launch:
2020-01-08: „Von nun an schreiben wir unsere Artikel in einem neuen System, verwalten Bilder und Videos auf neuen Plattformen.“ Fun fact: Der 8. Januar ist der Geburtstag von Elvis… https://devspiegel.medium.com/alles-neu-denken-der-prozess-hinter-dem-relaunch-des-digitalen-spiegel-331e76255e48
2020-01-01: You’re selling (expensive, enterprise) storage? Then please, the next time I order 10 TB, let me know in advance that I’ll need to order more if I actually want to store 10 TB of files (because snapshots can eat a lot of disk space). You’ll make more money, I’ll sleep better.
2020-01-01: After 22 years in IT, I’m growing a bit tired of production systems going down because some disk is full (and disk space wasn’t monitored).