Email Responsiveness- January 6, 2003 I'm not sure if this is a universal truth or not, but I suspect it is. People can't manage their email. This isn't a spam problem or tool problem. This is about people that don't understand how to deal with mail in a timely fashion and manage their time. I have seen people that proclaim proudly that they have 4,000 messages in their inbox with 1,000 unread items. It must make them feel important to be so popular It is time to take a stand. We must demand action. Jeff Bogdan (a coworker) and I...http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/52 C for Eclipse- January 6, 2003 Spoke too soon... need to read blogs more carefully...http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/51 Java VM for .NET- January 6, 2003 Chris: that is one of the coolest things that I've seen in a long time! I love the idea behind Eclipse (open source pluggable IDE), it's just too bad it doesn't have support for C <G>http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/50 Msft blog on- January 6, 2003 Chris: Count me in... i'm always up for a night on the town!http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/49 Back in seattle- January 6, 2003 Chris Sells is hanging around Seattle today and tomorrow... hmm... that can only spell trouble :)http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/47 A little friendly competition...- January 6, 2003 Turns out that Dare isn't the only 'softie writing a .NET RSS browser... Joe Beda (no blog to speak of, yet!) also wrote one and forwarded me the code, etc... hopefully he'll let me post it. As a side note - Joe wins for the best product name "Aggregator of Syndicated Sites" or "ASS" for short. Dare, Joe, can't we all work together on this :)http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/45 .NET News Aggregator- January 5, 2003 Dare Obasanjo: Can I get a copy of your .NET code looks pretty promissing...http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/44 Apple Switch- January 5, 2003 Should apple switch It would be pretty cool to see OSX running on an Intel!http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/43 Compatability- January 5, 2003 I got to meet Ray Ozzie last month and we got on talking about his history and the computer industry. He happened to have an old copy of the original VisiCalc lying around, so he mailed it around later. The amazing thing is that sucker still runs. It runs on XP and the internal versions of Longhorn... very cool. When thinking about building platforms, that kind of compatability is amazing.http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/41 UI design- January 5, 2003 Since Doug mentioned me doing lots of GUI stuff, I thought I'd mention an interesting UI design book - About Face. It's worth a read, although I think that Cooper goes a little bit far in saying that the "File" menu should be nuked. There are some things that don't always follow a rational model, but get ingrained into the system so deeply that you shouldn't try to change them. I agree with probably 80% of the book though - self describing UI, error messages with intelligible text (and...http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/40 |