Tableau Software: A Visual Spreadsheet is an interactive canvas that allows you to explore, analyze and create reports from databases. It lets you display, filter, sort, group, drill-into, calculate and… Read more »
Erik leaves Amazon.com (but doesn’t tell where to go/what to do) and Brad joins Six Apart to work on PHP dynamic rendering in MT 3.1, a welcome development I and… Read more »
MyHosting.com CEO and President Tony Yustein, a former regional director for Microsoft, has interesting comments about how Microsoft perceives the hosting market and chose to optimize its products for dedicated… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »