Jason Yip eloquently captures the easiest way to derail a project.
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November 19, 2007
Project Failure – How To Tip
19November
November 18, 2007
SharePoint: Comparison of WSS with MOSS
18November
This is an excellent comparison of WSS with SPS2003, MOSS standard and MOSS Enterprise. It is a simple Excel file with worksheets for each of the main components.
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November 18, 2007
Elance
Site for outsourcing all kinds of work ranging from Graphic Design, Software Development, Research, Writing, Admin services. www.elance.com
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November 18, 2007
RentACoder
Site for outsourcing software development projects. www.rentacoder.com
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November 18, 2007
Windows Live Translation site
This is a pretty cool site for translating web sites. Here's an example translating my site into Arabic. We tested it at the office with the Elcom site into Korean and our Korean developers were pretty amused – there's still a way to go with artificial translation it seems…
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November 17, 2007
SQL Crunch – resource for SQL Server users
17November
A nice collection of links, categorised helpfully. eg there are sections for Developers, BI, SQL 2008, etc
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November 14, 2007
Lessons from eye tracking studies
14November
Over at VirtualHosting the goodness keeps on coming. This post on the results of eye tracking studies is interesting reading and a good checklist for improving the 'real' usability of your site.
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November 13, 2007
Windows Live Writer released
13November
Get it here. I recommend it. I've been using it for ages, the Betas have been good and now it is finally released.
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November 13, 2007
Jakob Nielsen makes me scratch my head again
The much respected Jakob Nielsen tells us to write articles, not blogs. I've never agreed with much of Mr Nielsen's writings, and this latest blog post (oops, I mean AlertBox article) from him is indicative of why. On my reading he basically equates blogs with hastily written, low in substance entries, and thus to be avoided. Kind of like this entry really! By golly, it's just lucky...
November 13, 2007
IE to be back to normal with ActiveX
iTnews reports that Microsoft will remove a 'feature' (yes, feature) from IE. The supposed feature is that really annoying behavior that required users to click on an ActiveX control to enable it, before they could use it. This is most common when trying to activate Flash movies on a site for example. How much did this feature cost? Just a measly $521 million. The mind boggles. Not...