Rich clients, network wealth
Phil Wainewright, after having drifted too far into the "the web is good enough" camp, now gets back to a point of view I find much more easy to agree… Read more »
Category: software
Taking your Research Service for Microsoft Office Offline
John R. Durant points to an MSDN article on how to build Office research panes with offline access support. It’s good that Office is finally becoming a decent Intranet client…. Read more »
Microsoft Lost the API War? Not So Fast
Joel Spolsky is getting a lot of mileage for his essay, How Microsoft Lost the API War, and it’s deserved because there are a lot of good things in there…. Read more »
How to Share a Taxonomy with Other Photoshop Album Users?
Photoshop Album is one of those rare applications that make meta tagging so easy that even "normal people" can use it. Now, let’s say I want to create a taxonomy… Read more »
Involving Customers in Your Product Design: What a Difference a Decade Makes
Back in the summer of 1993 I was an intern at Microsoft (a couple of years before I got back there for a real job), and I have a vivid… Read more »
Movable Type, Meet the Enterprise
Ari Paparo just ran into the IT wall while implementing MT to support an intranet project. Here are the features he suggests developers should work on: version Control and archiving… Read more »
Office Clippy — What Were They Thinking?
Chris Pratley worked on MS Word at the time, and tells us Clippy’s story, if not from the very inside (the dreaded assistant wasn’t specific to Word but rather a… Read more »
MT3 perspective
Tim Appnel, one of the developers most familiar with Movable Type, provides some interesting perspective about MT 3 (Tim helped us architect and develop some of the things done at… Read more »
Design a blogging feature for OneNote
Chris Pratley provides a good overview of what product management is all about, first because you need to frame your decisions in a business context, and then because it’s easy… Read more »
Quotetracker Keeps Improving
It’s been a couple of years since I last played with Quotetracker ("a Windows program that provides streaming real-time quotes, Live intraday charts with Technical Indicators, Level II quotes, Time… Read more »