Not Joannes best book in my view, but a good read none the less. being a Coastliner myself though I think it appealed to me more than most other reviewers. Like many of Joannes books I tend to feel they are a bit too short given the number of interesting...
A really good novel, probably my favourite of all Joannes books. The only things I disliked about it was the insistence on sticking with the “clever idea” she has at the start of the book of describing things from the perspective of one of the ‘special’ bottles of wine. Whilst it seems clever at...
Ed Brill makes a point in one of his posts about the woes of the Exchange Group in Microsoft, here is the guts of it:
It hasn’t been a good few months for the Exchange product team at Microsoft. First the Outlook team ships an updated connector for Lotus Domino; then they dismantle their own roadmap; and now they are facing internal competition:
“Our first product here is going to be using Outlook that uses the Hotmail e-mail infrastructure. So you don’t need to have an Exchange Server if you’re a small business; you can just use Hotmail and you can have that synchronized experience, as well as the calendaring and everything else with other people who are on Hotmail.”
Sort of confirms the feeling I got when I posted on a simillar topic a while back. Then I got a bit more encouraged when I posted this. lets hope for some clarity soon!
I wrote about this topic a while back. Its nice to see some discussion starting up on it for two reasons:
Check out this post which gets the debate started. Eric Mack has a real good contribution.
In fact if you are interested in personal productivity in general then the discussions on the Getting Things Done site are of a very high quality.
It’s TechED Europe this week and Microsoft have announced more details of the next release of Windows 2003 Server. The area of most interest to me is, “anywhere access”, which Neowin reports on. Anywhere access enables users to use terminal services over port 80 (HTTPs/RPC), Outlook over port 80 (HTTPs/RPC) and also file shares from within corporate LANs over port 80 (HTTPs/RPC).
These are very interesting developments, the WTS capabilities removing one more advantage that Citrix has over Microsoft. The file share access is interesting, as file share access using WebDAV is already available I can only assume that this is CIFS access tunnelled over HTTPS, this would be a big improvement over WebDAV as it would support more applications, the properties dialog and other features not available today using DAV. I thought Outlook over HTTPS was already part of Exchange 2003 server, so I am not sure why this is included in a feature list for Windows 2003 server unless its actually provided by the OS or probably IIS rather than Exchange.
These HTTP access mechanisms are useful not just in providing internet access to corporate resources but also for corporates wishing to provide controlled access on their WAN for …
I am doing fairly well. I track my symptoms, and using that tracking scheme my average symptoms level during the whole flare was 50, during the peak of the flare it was 70 and its now down to 30 and the 3 day average is fairly stable, although there is still plenty of variation during the day and between days. My mental acuity is still not what it was and I still suffer from fatigue but less weakness as I have done a lot of exercise and so my strength is much improved. I am finding that the more exercise I do the less pain I am in, provided I take it easy. I am still taking 10 mg of Steroids and my doc wants me to use anti-inflammatories as well, but I am not keen to take the risk of further side effects and would rather just put up with the pain.
During the last 2 weeks though I have started with really severe, very localised inflammations, in my knee, jaw and back. The area involved is probably on the size of a 10p piece, but the pain is such that I am …
One of my friend’s posts pointed me to beyond bullets a blog about communications. It was strange because a few minutes later I came across another link in another feed I was reading so I decided to check it out. I liked this post on the Presentation Dashboard, an idea for putting the audience in control. I like this concept very much and have used it myself many times in different forms; here are a few of them:
1. I have created several PowerPoints that I designed not to be presented but to be emailed out or web delivered and navigated around. This was done with lots of buttons and links and was very effective. We also used this idea for training courses
2. This worked so well that I changed my PowerPoint standard template and so that I created a master slide with index buttons all the way down the left hand side. Because it was in the master it appeared on every slide. When I presented it made it very easy to jump around the presentation following up on any topics the audience wanted to discuss. Depending on which section you were in the appropriate link had a …
I have just been sent details of this InfoPath web application by Microsoft. I should have been pleased, but I was very disappointed, not by InfoView which seems to be a great way of publishing an InfoPath form so that it can be completed using a web form, but because Microsoft did not ship it!
Microsoft would have got such a different reception and eliminated a lot of trust issues if InfoPath had been positioned as a web form designer, offline editor and aggregation tool, with a complementary web forms interface for those not able to take advantage of the native client. I can not believe that developed in parallel with the thick client developing the web client would have been that big a deal either.
Anyway Microsoft chose a different route and instead of being seen as producing a great innovative standards based product that demonstrated the best of rich and reach, they chose a route that exposed them to constant criticism over attempting to lock people into Office and Thick Client technologies!
Come on Microsoft examine everything you are planning from the perspective of those who are uneasy about your track record, …
There is a flurry of debate in the blogs because Peter says, I Still like the tablet. But I am all out of love, well I have a story to tell about Tablet love as well.
I got my first Tablet, a HP TC1100, in January and it was love at first sight, I just took to the slate format and at the time forgave the terrible keyboard, (although it didn’t take me long to remember my old IBM keyboard with increasing longing). I wrote all about my early experiences in my tablet blog. Well my circumstances changed and I found myself working mostly from home so the mobility benefits I was getting from the tablet reduced and I started to look at the platform more objectively. These are some of the conclusions that I came to, but I think it’s a pretty personal view so don’t expect any conclusions that I draw to apply to you.
The Tablet didn’t work for me when I was mainly deskbound:
I recently read Getting Things Done, and wanted to apply it using Lotus Notes. I struggled a bit and to tell the truth I have not fully implemented it even after a month of playing around. I am trying again now that I have a new PDA, better synchronisation software,...