Simon Michaelis

Hi, I'm Simon Michaelis, a 21 year old web enthusiast and windsurfer from Cologne, Germany. I also study at EUFH

I like windy days, working on awesome web projects and getting crazy with friends on water.

On this page I post whatever seems to be interesting for me...

If you want, contact me, I'm open minded:

email: mail@simonmichaelis.de
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~ Thursday, August 26 ~

“ The average respiratory rate for adults is 12-20 breathes per minute, which is the rate that the sleep-indicator light fades in and out on most Apple laptops.

—

Flood Lite - Apple’s Attention to Detail

You can get a frickin’ patent on this stuff? Oh what.

(via pheelmore)

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~ Wednesday, August 25 ~

Looks like the perfect weather for popaganda and exploring Stockholm. Any recommendations for Stockholm btw?

~ Friday, August 20 ~

The famous Hugo Passage in Cologne :)

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~ Monday, August 16 ~

“

While having a fully-operational version of jQuery for mobile browsers is of the utmost importance, it’s equally critical that we provide a unified set of cross-browser interaction controls and components for developing mobile applications.

While a few frameworks exist now (such as jQTouch, iUI, and Sencha Touch) none of them even attempt to provide a consistent experience beyond the safety of iOS, Android, and webOS. There is a major opportunity for jQuery to provide a solidified and easy-to-use experience for those that develop web-based mobile applications.

— jQuerys’s Mobile Strategy - Good strategy for the long run I guess.

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~ Saturday, August 14 ~

sebastianwaters:

soupsoup:

His name: Christian Owens. His age: 16. He made his first million dollars in two years, “inspired by Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs”. This is how he did it.

Simple ideas win.

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~ Friday, August 13 ~

“ If you want to do something that’s going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy. When words like “groupware” and “enterprise” start getting tossed around, you’re doing the latter. You start adding features to satisfy line-items on some checklist that was constructed by interminable committee meetings among bureaucrats, and you’re coding toward an externally-dictated product specification that maybe some company will want to buy a hundred “seats” of, but that nobody will ever love. With that kind of motivation, nobody will ever find it sexy. It won’t make anyone happy.

— Groupware Bad (via adactio)

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~ Tuesday, August 10 ~

pscience:

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“ Mehr Buzz durch weniger Blabla.

— @mashupstream

~ Sunday, August 8 ~

“ If you’re building a technology-driven company, you better have a culture that loves engineers, and I mean love. All too often, I see entrepreneurs who say they “just need engineers” to “bang out the code” for this great idea of theirs. If you view engineers as interchangeable factory workers instead of partners and creative people, you’re in for a tough time getting huge in a world driven by technology.

—

Because engineers know their product best. Could not agree more.

Scaling startups (via adactio) (via solipsism)

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