The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in… — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
Bloggers and other flavors of lone wolf are publishing heart-wrenching photo-essays from the front line of the recovery effort. Newspapers and TV networks? They're… — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only get noticed… — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
“If you crank the pedantry and purism up, the Web is about URIs and REST. If you crank the controversy down, the Web is… — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good… — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
For heavens sake, if you haven’t gotten comfy with Agile techniques and thinking, get on it right now. — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for,… — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame… — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
All the PHP code I've seen in that experience has been messy, unmaintainable crap. Spaghetti SQL wrapped in spaghetti PHP wrapped in spaghetti HTML,… — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years. — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published… — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
The SOAP stack is generally regarded as an embarrassing failure these days. — Tim Bray Copy Share Image