Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
Recently, I heard designer Stephen Hay talk about the concept Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind. The idea resonated with me. Now, I don’t mean to delve into Buddhist teachings. I’m by no means an expert on...
View ArticleZen Design Principles
Following up on last week’s post about Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind I came across an interesting article on Co.Design about 7 Design Principles, Inspired By Zen Wisdom. These principles build upon a...
View ArticleOn Hiring Developers
Laurie Voss, CTO at npm posted an interesting article on why many companies aren’t able to hire good developers in spite of elaborate hiring and interviewing processes. It’s a rather lengthy post but...
View ArticleRobin Christopherson – Technology – The Power And The Promise
Some time ago I wrote about Robin Christopherson’s talk on accessible and inclusive design at beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2014. A video of this excellent talk is now online: [There is a video that...
View ArticleSeventh Wonder: Inner Enemy
This week’s post is the start of a little series of music videos by up and coming Progressive Metal / Progressive Rock bands I listen to. This song’s Inner Enemy by Seventh Wonder. [There is a video...
View ArticleMaciej Ceglowski – The Internet With a Human Face
More videos of the beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2014 design conference are online now. This one is Maciej Ceglowski’s talk about The Internet With a Human Face: [There is a video that cannot be...
View ArticleVoyager: Lost
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View ArticleStephen Hay – Maintaining Simplicity
Here’s another interesting video of the beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2014 design conference. This is Stephen Hay talking about Maintaining Simplicity: [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this...
View ArticleImpulse – Dynamic Physics Animations For The Mobile Web
Impulse is a promising new JavaScript animation framework for mobile websites. The animations generated with Impulse look very smooth and natural. Very impressive work. Go check out the examples page...
View ArticleVoyager: Hyperventilating
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View ArticleAirtable – A true spreadsheet / database hybrid?
Lots of the software of the world is written in Microsoft’s Excel. A spreadsheet environment lends itself particularly well to addressing everyday computing problems. Compiling tabular data, creating...
View ArticleCulture is key
Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of Airbnb recently wrote a post about why culture is the most key part of a company (and quite likely of any organization). He quotes Peter Thiel, one of the investors...
View ArticleApple, Google, Microsoft – What do they do best?
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently made some interesting points about what he thinks are the core strengths of Microsoft and its competitors Apple and Google. Though I can’t really say I particularly...
View ArticleThreshold: Unforgiven
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View ArticleThe Future of Software
In an article titled Programming: easier, better, faster, stronger. Giuliano Iacobelli of Stamplay writes about how programming might become easier, faster and more reliable in the future while...
View ArticleMonetizing Open Source Software Is Still Hard
Some weeks ago the guys behind LocomotiveCMS – an open source CMS that’s competing with WordPress – published a sobering article on how they failed making a profit with open source software so far....
View ArticleZenQuery is now open source
Today I made ZenQuery available as open source (under the Apache License). ZenQuery is an ‘Enterprise Backend as a Service’ and allows you to easily access databases through a REST API without any...
View ArticleFormatJS: Localize dates and numbers
Internationalization and localization still is a somewhat difficult problem in software development. FormatJS is a collection of JavaScript libraries that addresses a part of this problem by formatting...
View ArticleAbout the Pitfalls Of Software Development Effort Estimation
Software development effort estimation probably is one of the most disliked, even feared tasks in software development and computer science in general. However crucial, even the most experienced...
View ArticleEstiMate – Accurate Crowdsourced Software Development Estimates
Following up on last week’s post I’ve launched a product site / MVP for EstiMate: Software development effort estimation probably is one of the more difficult tasks in software development. Even the...
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