Daily Archive: March 19, 2006

The Lotus Notes user experience

The Lotus Notes/Domino Hints ad Tips blog is excellent, I am a firm believer in the integrated user experience and this blog is already helping me to use Notes more effectively.  Integrated attachment editing is a feature I already new about, but it illustrates my previous post about user experience...

Virtualization helps Consumerization

Consumerization is a term that was coined by Doug Neal of CSC to describe the fact that enterprise IT is being disrupted by the combination of tech savvy employees who make high levels of personal investment in IT and have access to a whole raft of web 2.0 applications via...

Application virtualisation for the rest of us

Application virtualization is going to be very big, in essence it allows you to deploy applications on Windows clients just by copying them onto the machine.  The configuration of the machine remains unchanged because the virtualization platform isolates the application, by intercepting all calls to the registry and to files...

Fed up with negative news!

I must admit that I rarely listen to or read national or international news,  I find the signal to noise ration to be very low,  I pick up a little from the Saturday paper and from my family and friends.  Of course I scan a lot of focussed blog entries...

Don’t forget the user experience!

Rod describes in this post the importance of posting content in HTML.  He describes his experience of posting an interesting article as a PDF and then later as HTML.  The PDF didn’t generate much traffic,  when he converted to HTML the traffic went wild.  I must admit that I downloaded...

Very useful Lotus Notes utility

There are many ways to automatically paste information into documents,  but if you are a Lotus Notes user this is a very useful utility.  It allows you to click a toolbar button and select from a list of clips which get pasted into you document.  The best things about it...

Application delivery approaches

The way you deliver applications to your clients is the fundamental issue of debate in this article.  Web client, Server Based Computing, Smart Clients, Thin Client computing, Consolidated Client Architectures are all terms that are used and misused in this context.  This article attempts to just cover the key concepts, talk to...