Jon Udell: InfoWorldJon's InfoWorld articlesUnder Gmail's hood- October 26, 2004 I'd been experimenting for a few months with Gmail, Google's Web mail system, without really taking it seriously. But this week I decided to take the plunge and try using Gmail not only as a mail search engine, but as a replacement for Outlook (on Windows) and Mail (on OS X). Now I'm ready to join the chorus singing the praises of GMail's user-interface technology. Its combination of HTML, JavaScript, and the DOM makes the browser do some remarkable tricks. ... As early adopters discovered...http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/infoworld/2004/10/26.html#a1102 The Wiki way- October 19, 2004 The users of a Wiki think of the process as organic growth. Enterprise IT planners tend to regard it as unstructured chaos. They're both correct. JotSpot's aim is to harmonize these opposing views by empowering users to create islands of structure in their seas of unstructured data. The company's founders, Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer (two members of the original ArchitextExcite team), showed me how this works. You write simple Wiki markup to define a form and to display data gathered through..http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/infoworld/2004/10/19.html#a1098 Securing Windows- October 12, 2004 Led by Michael Howard (among others), Microsoft has embarked on a serious program of reform and claims it is committed to implementing these best practices. The comprehensive effort begins, Howard says, with mandatory training. Within 60 days of hiring, every developer assigned to a product team is indoctrinated with the principles of what Microsoft calls its Security Development Lifecycle. "The level of security expertise in the marketplace -- in the industry in general -- is abysmally low,".http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/infoworld/2004/10/12.html#a1093 Computer telephony: why wait- October 5, 2004 The other day I had one of those living-in-the-future moments. An important phone call came in, but the colleague I needed to bring into the call wasn't available, and the caller couldn't wait. So, with the caller's permission, I recorded the call and forwarded it as an MP3 file to my colleague. When she later replayed the conversation, she got crucial points -- both factual and emotional -- that I never could have accurately reported. VoIP fantasy come true Not even close. The call came in...http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/infoworld/2004/10/05.html#a1089 |