Posted by Richard Sun, Dec 10 2006 21:38
Last week, my brother shared this article about Best Buy's strategies for the work environment. The "results-only work environment" (ROWE) is extremely interesting. I have wondered before why more companies didn't offer employees the option to telecommute, but ROWE seems to take it to another level. They say you can work when and where you want to work.
Read more...Posted by Richard Tue, Nov 21 2006 09:27
I was checking out my Dad's Mac Book and noticed he had a cool vertical view of his email. After searching around the menus, I realized it wasn't something standard. I found that my brother installed Letter Box for my Dad. I must have missed it in my RSS feeds. So far, I really like it.
Posted by Richard Tue, Oct 03 2006 20:13
This is a handy script to get Internet Explorer running under Linux. I had it up and running in Ubuntu in no time at all. Now I have a computer that I can test how a website looks in IE again (maybe I will actually fix this blog sometime).
Posted by Richard Thu, Sep 21 2006 20:09
Someone told me about the Gmap Pedometer the other day. It is a nice tool. I mapped out a few of the common paths we walk. I also mapped my drive to work the few different ways I drive it. Then I was curious to see what other applications use Google Maps API and I found this blog. It is cool to see how the API is being used.
Posted by Richard Sun, Aug 27 2006 17:28
I ran across this article talking about the technical setup of Lingr (basically provides chat rooms in the browser). The interesting thing about Lingr is it uses a technology that keeps a connection open from the browser to the server. With this connection open, the server can push content to the browser without requiring a browser refresh or a "polling" of the server. This lead to comments about whether servers could handle that many open connections.
Read more...Posted by Richard Fri, Aug 04 2006 17:50
I learned tonight that if all of the stars that make up the Milky Way were a grain of salt, it would be enough to fill up an Olympic size swimming pool.
Posted by Richard Wed, Jul 19 2006 13:03
I signed up late for BarCampRDU and I am pleased to say I am off the wait list and will be attending the un-conference. If you are not familiar with an un-conference, you can read about it here. I am looking forward to the event although I had kind of given up on it since I was number 31 on the wait list at one point. Hopefully, I will have some good information to blog about afterward.
Posted by Richard Mon, Jul 17 2006 21:59
I have written before about Web RSS Readers. I thought I had found the one I liked in Netvibes, but I just didn't stick with it. I went back to a few different RSS clients. Over the weekend, I ran across Newshutch. They had issues all weekend, but now they are up and running. I am very impressed with my initial usage. It keeps track of what I have read and updates when there are new articles.
Posted by Richard Sat, Jul 15 2006 22:55
Over the past several weeks, we have been meeting on Fridays with the application owners of our latest application. We mainly did this since we are under a tight timeline, but it was also a way to start working Agile Software Development into our environment. Some say you have to follow a process completely, but we haven't quite done that.
Read more...Posted by Richard Mon, Jul 03 2006 18:47
I have definitely become a Mac person, but after reading this story on Slashdot, I think I should give Ubuntu a try. I would also like to try a few of these applications as well. Of course, I would miss at least one application.
