Spoonstein

Tracert or Something Better?

spoonstein — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:35:25 +0000

For several years there have been IP tracing applications out there that would visually display where the trace went and it’s final destination. I’ve wondered if Google would do something similar to that with it’s maps.google.com product? That would be most useful to me. I wonder if their API allows for this kind of wild search?

Web Content Management On a Large Ship

spoonstein — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:39:50 +0000

Lately, I’ve been wondering what’s a good strategy for getting a large decentralized organization into the behavior of using a content management system. So far, these are the techniques that I’ve come up. What do you think?

Content Creators
Give the content creators a quick and easy “converter” that takes the content created by a user and returns a well-formatted HTML document.

Advanced Content Creators
Going a step further, resolve layout issues by deploying a very simple desktop version that can handle design challenges for form creation and data that is displayed in table format.

Developers
Give the developers an API to work with that hosts the web content in a repository and provides them with a few good formats for output (xml, html, etc) while keeping the role of the repository simple.

Overall
Give the site owners and content creators a place to manage their entire content while in the background providing site managers and developers a place to pull content from and produce/manage in their own way.

That last point might be redundant, but it’s a start. It seems like web services play a great role in mirroring the organizational challenges brought by loosely coupled units.

Microsoft gives up on IE and invests in Firefox

spoonstein — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:42:37 +0000

Wouldn’t it be cool if Microsoft finally bit the bullet and gave up on IE and invested in Firefox? Yeah, that’s pretty crazy, but so is IE7.

What about all that quirky stuff that goes on now in the browser for IE users on intranets, etc? Well how about a plugin? Yeah, that means MS is going open source on their quirks, but who want to repeat all that mess?

Just a thought.

Industrial Versus Custom Code

spoonstein — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:40:35 +0000

Just a note to myself for today. There is a clear distinction in the development process of custom code versus industrial (commercial) code. It’s an obvious thing, but I’m reminding myself that the development of custom code can result in a different communication process than commercial or industrial software. Just to further clarify, there isn’t a difference between the commercial/industrial/custom code and open source/private-closed software. It’s the process that might be different and thus a different view for costs, usability, etc.

They will be grateful that you cared enough to make it.

spoonstein — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:42:47 +0000

If your cookie is in 2 pieces, the answer is yes.

spoonstein — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:42:32 +0000

Physical activity will dramatically improve your outlook today.

spoonstein — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:42:09 +0000

Tension in a partnership? It might be time for you to delegate.

spoonstein — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:41:49 +0000

Focus on trusting your intuition and you will get through it.

spoonstein — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:41:25 +0000

Protected: How to rip n burn a dvd

spoonstein — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:30:39 +0000