So here’s Eric’s comments on Joel’s article, “Hitting the High Notes“, where he compares a good soloist to a good choir. It’s a good read. One point I want to add. In the software world, you need team players and you need stars. But I find it works best when these folks are not on [...]
I believe government spends money stupidly, but consider this: More than 80 percent of the $1.5 billion in contracts signed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to clean up after Hurricane Katrina were awarded without bidding or with limited competition, the New York Times reported Monday. When you’re dealing with a disaster and need stuff [...]
The current XFA Specification is available online. XFA is XML Forms Architecture, and it’s the document format that LiveCycle Designer (the product I work on) creates.
Well I have a gadget mostly working… It’s on a public server but it’s not really useful to anyone but me, since it uses an XML interface to my Linky web service that I use to manage my own personal bookmarks. Anyone can use Linky, but the start.com gadget currently has my name hard-coded into [...]
Larry Osterman’s blog is good Raymond Chen type stuff.
Here are some of the pictures I took at the PDC.
This is a big no-no. People get carted off to jail for saying bomb in an airport. But why? Do terrorists talk about bombs while they’re in the security line? “Hey Bob, you still have the bomb? You didn’t leave it at Starbucks did you?”. Has there ever been a single case where acting on [...]
Sure could have used this when I was on the road.
We just spent a few days in Disneyland, and Disney has this technique that they use in a number of rides to invoke a sense of unease, to make you think that something bad could happen at any minute. The power flickers on and off. The balky generator at the Indiana Jones ride. The spooky [...]
I’m in a hotel without Internet access. No sir, I don’t like it. I’ll be back home (and online) Thursday.