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earthlink approved to provide wifi in new orleans

2008-07-04T16:21:00.000-07:00

5.July2008
EarthLink today announced that it has been approved to provide services wifi in New Orleans. According to blog:
"The network will have two levels - a free (and ad-free) service to 300kbps during the recovery effort the city, and paid services in 1mbps up / down. EarthLink will also allow other providers to offer their services over the network, allowing open access and competition. "

There was some seriously strange legal wranglings about whether the city will be able to conclude a contract with anyone to provide this service, and perhaps it was a local state of emergency that allowed it. Given that the incredible reliance on wireless network there during the recovery - why not the federal government subsidize only the upper layer of-service for everyone? This is a silly question, of course, such a policy would interfere with the market and its ability to monetize human suffering. I can not imagine that Earthlink mind. At least permit was not granted the market to partner with local government so that some services at all is available.

Update: There is e-mail statement just added to the Earthlink blog from New Orleans CIO on what people hug him on the street, that the free wifi is on the way. It's interesting account, almost roztrhat Jerker.

edelman acquires pr firm of mozilla many other tech companies

2008-06-29T05:26:00.005-07:00

24.June2008
Steve Rubel just wrote that his employer, Edelman gained Silicon Valley PR company A & R Partners. Rubel says that many companies are already blogging clients. Edelman leadership appears focused on the introduction of corporate communications in the new world of social media in some very cool ways, even if learning from mistakes, such as Walmart bloggers situation. Here is a list of clients for the A & R, you may notice that Mozilla is there. Interesting. These efforts are said to be based in honesty - and this is a radical concept.

Valleywag has a more Valley-centric take on this.
Nicholas Carr has a hilarious response to Rubel style cheerleading open conversation as the central importance. Well, do not forget to comment.

patent on social networking granted to friendster

2008-06-29T05:26:00.003-07:00

20.June2008
"Friend-what?" I request you may be, but it's true: Red Herring reported that Friendster, the ill-osudový social networking that (I think) it all started, has been granted a patent for a social network. After the great tradition of painstakingly clear patent language, Friendster own patent for "system, method and apparatus for connecting users in an online computer system based on their relationships within social networks."

Friendster, whether it will use the time-tested 'if you can not beat' em, take them to court 'strategy is yet to be seen, but to their credit: they are apparently applied for a patent (issued on June 27 of 2006) way back in the day, before they fell from their perch.

imagination cubed online whiteboard

2008-06-29T05:26:00.001-07:00

19.June2008
Ok, so it may not be everything, "new" and some of you might not find it particularly "exciting", but hell, I thought it was super. Developed by General Electric, Imagination Cubed (so-force, called the I ^ 3, for self-serving purposes do not write to me every time) is another of these multi-user online whiteboards. As I said, nothing special, especially about. . Just visit the site and invite up to 2 more people to simultaneously use your white board. When you're done, you can print your final product, see a repetition of what happened, or save the white board at a later time. I think this would be really useful for those times when you were trying to explain to their mothers-in-law how to use TiVo to record "Today in Cats" and that she needs to "press the green button, this is not one second, let me here with you! "You can add text to your drawing, change the background color, and displays the grid, which will help draw more geometrically.

Wrap this all to nougat AJAX friendly interface and get a winning Web 2.0 applications. Now, if only they could find a way to monetize ...

social software coverage now on download squad

2008-06-29T05:25:00.005-07:00

17.June2008
Yes, friends, this is the end of time - or at least until the end of this blog, as we know it. Our social Software coverage was included in a larger entity, although without the usual acquisition rumours, drunk the opening party (complete with Flickr RSS) or a sudden influx of VC money. Our own Download Voj will proudly take over news coverage in the social software space, so tune it to their daily fix, set a new mark of social software category, or main Voj Download page and redirect your insatiable newsreaders for Social Software RSS feed and / or Voj withdrawal main RSS feed.

heat mapping your transportation decisions

2008-06-29T05:25:00.003-07:00

15.June2008
Mysociety.org British tech nonprofit project, which builds and provides new tools for civic good, has released a beautiful series of maps illustrating the various data transmission around England. See, for example, the sample map on whether public transport (buses, light rail is the best in red) or a private car (blue) you will be faster from Cambridge station to any other part of the country. (Cambridge is in the lower right corner, nearish London.) Project has created many other maps, as well, illustrating the different figures.

This is interesting, of course, as proof of concept. I am sure that it was time-consuming and costly to create, but will not always be the case. If organizations such as public transport agency expose their data via the API then you can imagine, it appears as to be only a matter of force, which is only a matter of time. Would not it be great to be able to look at the map, as to any way you planning? "I am in the 44th and Killingsworth in Portland, and I wanted to go to the 15th and Belmont. If I'm willing to be removed from within a few blocks, it would go faster on light rail or car? How long it may take, I to get to a certain place? special place that I headed there is no public transport dead zones, is it? "Oh, you can answer questions! This is just one of many maps published by MySociety, which is a good thing, with regard to Margaret Thatcher's famous (attributed) quote - "Man, who even after age 26."

Jookster

2008-06-29T05:25:00.001-07:00

13.June2008
compound feed to the web archiving, social networking, search and included new services, which I think has some interesting things going with him. After logging on Jookster profile and install Firefox tool-bar, users have access to personalized searches and instant web archiving. Click the Jook This tool-bar immediately archive copy of the page you are visiting and indices for the search. You can return to their comfort and search through all the sites you have jooked. Adding friends with similar interests expands its search results include things jooked them and their friends, their friends and friends, etc. You can specify how many degrees of separation, you want to find. Search results are ranked according to how many levels of people who jooked page, is far from you. This brings in the concept, which is a lot of talk about the Supernova conference this week, the fact that the outdoors on the Internet, use trusted contacts, so look for information and assess the quality of information based on what you think of your friends. Jookster bring this idea to the Web site, and I think that could be the start of something big. Imaging looking for information on the ecosystem of the Amazon rainforest and is able to see that a biologist, you should know jooked result, but that it would immediately reassure you that the information would be good?

I think that Jookster is a great idea, even if it appears that this is one of the many startups that will go belly up in this boom, I believe that this basic concept, which will include what we are using for years to come .

A correction to the correction

2008-06-29T05:24:00.000-07:00

11.June2008

Some readers were pleased and pointed out in his comments that there are few open-source projects, which are integrated with the remote area. I think, news analysis, which will appear within a few hours to violate the story is never very good. The whole business on remote access to desktop is the whole industry, and this is only a tiny fraction of the protocols, which were published by Microsoft yesterday, Charny story is the moral equivalent of trying to decide who is going to win the next election to the American talking to a couple of truckers in bar. The problem is not in the accuracy of the reports (even if it was sorely lacking), the problem was that the story was too ambitious. Charny, I cried when I said, "Schleswig-Holstein question is too complex, only three men in Europe are still understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second was a German professor who became crazy. I am the third and I forgot all about. "

PS here are the Microsoft Open Specification Protocol.

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Speakers for Business of Software Conference

2008-06-29T05:23:00.001-07:00

9.June2008
Neil Davidson wrote a preliminary list of some of the performances at this year's Business Software at the conference. "So far I have lined up (in no particular order) Joel Spolsky, Eric Sink, Richard Stallman, Dharmesh Shah, Jason Fried, Steve Paul Johnson and Kenny."

Inspired Misfires

2008-06-29T05:22:00.005-07:00

5.June2008
From my June column in Inc. Magazine: "The bureaucrats in Washington have forgotten Newton's first law: Objects in motion tends to stay on the move."

Pressed uniforms, mid-winter tans, and morale

2008-06-29T05:22:00.003-07:00

30.May2008
May Inc. is a column on-line: "Do not say your star sellers to take the bus and stay with relatives, when they decide on this challenge in St. Louis, even if this is what you do when you started."

Some interesting jobs

2008-06-29T05:22:00.001-07:00

27.May.2008
The recent release of FogBugz 6.0 is about, doubled our sales, and even though I fully agree that the often small teams, not more than big teams, we have a lot of interesting work to be performed here and there never seem to be enough to the people, so we looked at some areas where adding more people should not slow things down.

We came up with three fairly interesting new places that could be a perfect fit for you or someone you know. It is relatively rare in the Fog Creek hired full-time and engineers, many of the people we hired in the past were former summer practice is relatively small (20 people), and we do not recruit seriously, so this is a rare opportunity to obtain at the door and take advantage of the fact that Clear Creek was designed from the ground that the kind of company where the best software developers want to work (about Fog Creek).kři

First place in the management system. Normally, I am quite happy to hire inexperienced, but clearly people and let them learn on the job. Even at a relatively important jobs, such as the President of the United States.

But for the management system is one of those things where experience is really important. You do not want to your new system administrator to learn how to create a secure and robust online services on the building of something uncertain and unrobust and learn from experience. So at our first system administrator, we hired Michael Gorsuch, because he knew how to operate our systems on one day.

This is a dilemma for smart people who want to learn how to world class system administrators. If everybody is asking for x years of experience, as you have had the experience? You can take an entry-level work in large companies, such as, say, junior DNS administrator, writing on the changes in the DNS configuration files, but you will not learn very much.

Here is the place where Fog Creek comes in. Michael and I talked about it and decided that our second rental in this department, could be totally inexperienced management system, if they were smart, what I do, and had personal characteristics that has become a major system administrator (attention to detail, šílená curiosity, a constant need to be learning new things, a strong ability to remain levelheaded and well organized in the most chaotic situations, there is no land pants in fear when presented with the command line, thinks that " RTFM "It's a great response, etc.) This is a once-va-lifetime chance to learn the field and gain significant experience in an interesting, mixed environment, including Unix and Windows desktops and servers, Internet hosting and internetworking, open source and Microsoft are all kinds of interesting moving parts. And you'll be learning from a real master, one on one, in an environment with large zero corporate BS, management believes that you have to order equipment, you need without having to undergo somehow 6 months of the financial committee process during which the company blatant lawyer who somehow became a "head of the capital infrastructure committee" is nervous about using open source software, hippie, because it seems to be a kind of "communist", and she had terrible experiences in the village in the 60s when it really rough guy who never bathed and nosila flip systems in the winter ... no, anyway, I abandonment of the topic. At Fog Creek, where you need equipment to you. That's really all it is.

Are you interested? The administrator of the Fog Creek

Our Another interesting point is the Linux Guru. It is a hybrid position for someone who really loves Linux, wants to a lot of coding, but also wants more diverse problem-solving type of work.

Here's a theory for this position. Our main product, FogBugz is a server product, which is available for Windows, Linux and Mac. On Windows servers, each has almost the same minimum Affairs. So our installer usually works from the shelf.

On Linux, though there is much more diversity. People have different distributions are different versions of various major components, such as MySQL, PHP, and Mono, and not all immediately compatible. Many Linux administrators went through their server, if set it to remove things that were not think I need to "security" reasons ( "if you are going to use / bin / ls, delete it - - it 'is just waiting for the security hole To be found, they said), and now, here it is, three years later, and they will install FogBugz, and not get why ls does not work. Bottom line: it takes a bit to hammering FogBugz to get to work in many Linux systems.

So this position is for Linux coder who will also be responsible FogBugz working to get our customers' systems. Darling My theory is that if a person who to call when a customer is missing, say, the Pear Mail module, if this person is the same person who submits the installation code, it will eventually acquire the ill sshing to customers' websites and entering a "pear install Mail" for them and they will only repair in the code once and for all. And I think many people would find a job, which combines solutions to the problems with the new software will be quite interesting, especially if, as I said, you love Linux.

On the development side, you've also got to handle any Linux-specific code. Right now, it is a combination of PHP, Mono, and various scripting languages. Most FogBugz is written in our own portable language, Wasabi. You will be responsible to maintain the Linux-specific parts of the code, and will work to maintain Wasabi for Linux at the same level as Wasabi for Windows.

Are you interested? Linux gurus in the Fog Creek

Finally, we were able to use extreme internal Windows guru. I do not have a "Access / VB" kind of guru. I mean Win 32, COM. Net, GDI programming, low level of computers running Windows things in C + + and C # kind of guru. And when I say. "Net" I do not have in mind "Ooh look, I made ASP.NET websites with GridView, which shows a list of customers." Uh-uh. Let the other league for the boss (me). For this work, you work directly on the native. NET programming language, CLR bytecode generation and integration with Visual Studio debugger. You solution obscure threading model problems in other people's code. You hacking GDI to improve the performance of our Remote Desktop Service, the second pilot. Will to why the trivial things that used to work do not work in any other 64-bit Vista. This is a perfect job on the type of developers who are doing the Windows API, programming for years, who are reading MSDN Magazine, it was called, MSJ, who actually means what thou Box is talking about who can explain how the example of a COM Objects of DLL without touching the registry, and who can determine the jerky Microsoft documentation on how to play the first four bars Gaudeamus IGITUR on a computer without a sound card.

Are you interested? Windows Home gurus in the Fog Creek

Do not use small teams can do more things than the big teams? Did not The Mythical Man Month convincingly prove that you should have the smallest possible team? Do not startups with two children run circles around the large companies? Fog Creek is not available large and bureaucratic? Why hire more people?

No, no, no and no. It's a little more complicated than this. The 20 people we are still fit around one table lunch, and we're far from being unable to get what. And what MMM argued that the only people in the late addition of the project is a project at a later date. The more people you have, the more communication you need, which counterbalances the added productivity of the extraordinary people - this is the end of MMM - and so when we add people are always trying to figure out how to do it in a way that is efficient. But the bottom line is that we have a long list of things that we wanted to do, and also our small-team is forced to do things in the series that could be done in parallel with a few more people. So in the long term I think we'll continue hiring carefully and discreetly, keeping each of the teams small core of (our largest dev team right now is, ehm, three people), and I think that we are still on the move from worrying about Fog Creek.

Marketing internships with Seth Godin

2008-06-29T05:21:00.005-07:00

24.May2008
Summer internships in the Fog Creek are already full, but Seth Godin, the marketing of my rebbe, is selling practices. Paid! "The intention is to find a heterogeneous group of motivated people who want young people to join together to create some really nice projects. The tools will range from on-line video blogs on copywriting for design. Themes could include policy or Squidoo or promotion of books or invented a new kind of interaction web ... ocásek no work, no cold calling, stapling, the collection or errands. "

Fire and motion, small business edition

2008-06-29T05:21:00.003-07:00

19.May.2008
"If the parties seized on a flight 747 from Tokyo for a while I was in remarkable barring Japanese level of service, cast me into the aircraft with a parachute, I could do quite a nice war, when I hit the ground."

From my column on Inc. Magazine April (login here). And I promise to stop the hairy dog stories to tell about their days in the army.

First Joel on Software conference

2008-06-29T05:21:00.001-07:00

12.May.2008
Registration is now open for the Business Software 2008 (first Joel on Software Conference). Neil has lined up great speakers:

Seth Godin, Business Week is the "Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age" is the best-selling author of 7 books (including permission Marketing and purple cow), as well as the most popular eBook all time.
Eric Sink, founder of SourceGear, author of the book "Eric Sink the Business Software" and those who embossed term "Micro-ISV"
Steve Johnson on Pragmatic Marketing and winner of last year's competition Software Idol
Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system, now used in tens of millions of computers today. Stallman received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, is the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Awards, and the Takeda Award for social / economic betterment
Paul Kenny is one of the most important selling UK trainers, consultants and speakers. He worked with many customers in three continents, including IBM, Perot Systems, The Guardian and dozens more.
Dharmesh Shah is a geek, a serial entrepreneur, founder of HubSpot and blogger in OnStartups.com
Jessica Livingston is the author of Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' infancy and founder of Y Combinator
Jason Fried is the founder of 37signals (developers Basecamp and Ruby on Rails) and Signal vs. Noise blogger
Joel Spolsky, aka, "me," stated DJ, has more than 600 points karma on social news sites "Reddit."
BoS2008 is in Boston, September 3-4. Boston is absolutely beautiful in September. The weather is usually perfect. You can go kayaking in Charles or have a duck tour in the event that you are low. More than 250000 college students just arrived, full of hope and optimism utterly unjustifiable. The summer tourist crowd is mostly gone home, so you can get into museums and historical monuments. There are plenty of cafes, which are not included-NASDAQ.

stackoverflow.com

2008-06-29T05:20:00.003-07:00

7.May.2008
What is stackoverflow.com?

Nothing, yet.

But here is the concept:

Programmers seem to have stopped reading books. The market for books about programming themes are miniature compared to the number of working programmers.

Instead, they are fortunately gone programme, through trial-and-error. When not something out, they enter a query into Google.

And sometimes, the first result looks like it goes to the exact answer to the question, and nadšená, until you click on a link, and find that it is a pay site, and the answer is cloaked or hidden or pay for - the wall , And you can buy a membership.

And you will not even get an expert answer. You'll get lots of responses to typed other programmers, as you are. Some of the answers will be wrong, some will have the truth, some may be outdated, and it is hard to imagine that the cooperative spirit of the Internet is the best programmers to invent.

Jeff Atwood, and I decided to do something about it. We're starting to build programming Q & A site that is free of charge. Free ask questions freely to answer questions, free to read, free of charge to the index, built for ordinary old HTML, no false rot13 text on the cover page, but scammy google-masking tactics, not the sellers, not JavaScript windows, before dropping down to answer Query to $ 12.95 go away. You can register if you want to collect karma and win valuable taste that will appear next to your name, but otherwise it's just free.

When I was in the building of a new product, my policy has always been to remain silent about until I have something on the ship. But this is really the product. This is a free community site for new programmers around the world and we need your help to propose to the programme, and it is necessary to build it. We want to hear your proposals, to hear your ideas and we are now we will build it right before your eyes. It was vaporware notice.

Each week, Jeff and I talk on the phone (he is in California, I was in New York), and we'll record those phone calls and throw them on the Web, you listen in on a call is podcast. We have a lot of problems to keep the issue so that podcast may be interesting for you, even if you do not want to hear about stackoverflow.com. The first episode is up now. Finally, I'll to the innovative "RSS" technology, and you'll be able to actually subscribe and receive new episodes delivered automatically to your ears. All in good time.

Jeff declaration

PS I am still CEO of Fog Creek full-time. StackOverflow.com is a joint venture between Clear Creek and Jeff Atwood. He is a full-time CEO, which means that it is calling shots. I'm sort of adviser to this.

Stack Overflow Podcast #2

2008-06-29T05:20:00.001-07:00

21.April2008
The next podcast is up. Today we talk about why we are doing a podcast in the first place, he took some questions / suggestions from the audience, and got into the fight about whether programmers should learn C. Guess which side I was.

There are some improvements that have already been.

First, always available RSS feed, so you can subscribe and receive each week podcast pressure on you. Here's how you log on using Apple's iTunes, for example:

Run iTunes
Select Advanced | Subscribe to Podcast
Add to this URL: http://mypocketmoney-dubik.blogspot.com/feed=podcast
There is no step 4th
Now, depending on the setting (under Podcasting in settings), iTunes downloads the latest podcasts and place them on your iPod, when documents You do not do anything special. I will not write here whenever there is a new podcast, you will have to sign.

Some people who have volunteered to help typing up transcripts of the hearing-impaired, is pressed for time-and search engines. This is a great idea! I opened the wiki, where anyone can contribute to the weekly transcript. If you can spare a few minutes to process and part of the podcast, it would be highly appreciated, and many readers, for which audio podcast is inaccessible.

I've been working on a way to improve the quality of sound. I do not want to, no promises, but next week we will try to make a show using Skype to obtain a better-than-POTS voice quality.

Architecture astronauts take over

2008-06-29T05:19:00.004-07:00

10.April2008
It was seven years ago today, when all excited that I get about Microsoft bombastic announced in the hail and promising that "does hail of technology in your life to work together on your behalf and under its control."

As it was, indeed? The idea that the future operating system was on a network of Microsoft cloud, and you should subscribe to everything with Windows and not all of their cases would be up there. It shows: no need for this place for all its affairs. And nobody trusted Microsoft, all their affairs. Hail and went away.

I've tried to coin the term for the type of people who invented hail: architecture astronauts. "This is certainly a tip-off to the fact that you have been infected by the Architecture Astronaut: The incrediBle amount of bombast, and the heroic, utopian grandiloquence, and boastfulness, the complete lack of reality. And people buy it! Commercial printing is wild!"

The hallmark for the architecture astronaut is that they are not in the real solution to the problem ... will address what appears to be a template for a lot of problems. Or at least try. Since 1988, many prominent architecture astronauts were convinced that the biggest problem to address is synchronization.

Watch the story here. I started picking on one company, which appeared to be particularly astronautish: Groove, who tried to restore Lotus Notes (synchronization giant machine) to peer-to-peer.

Groove had some early success, to secure the network in the military-industrial complex, but has not been a big crimp in addition niche. Their real success was in getting bought by Microsoft, which brought Groove is a designer and head of the architecture astronaut-Ray Ozzie, in the role of "Major Software Architect" to Microsoft, allegedly technical chlapa, which would keep inventing the future after BillG to the left, so that Steve Ballmer, have some new territory on which to build further its illegal monopoly.

And now Ray Ozzie is a great success will come and what is it? (drumroll. ..) Microsoft Live ok. The future of everything. Microsoft is "moving into the cloud."

What is Microsoft Live ok?

Hmm, let us go and see.

"Imagine all of your equipment-computers, and soon Macs and mobile phones-to work together to give you anywhere access to information you care about."

Wait a minute. Something here rot suspect. It's not exactly what the hail should be? I feel with the architecture astronaut.

And what is Windows Live ok?

It is a way to synchronize files.

God, we had to forever. When the first synchronization website to start coming out? 1999? There were one million versions. xdrive, mydrive, idrive, youdrive, wealldrive on ice cream. Nobody is care and nobody cares now, because the synchronization of files is not the only killer application. Sorry. It seems like it should be. But it is not.

But Windows Live ok, not just a way to synchronize files. This is only a sample of PhD. It's the whole goddamned architecture, with the API and developer tools and fabulously diagram showing all the layers of helpful shortcuts, and it seems like the captain of astronauts in Microsoft literally expect that this is their huge platform in the sky, which will take over when Windows becomes irrelevant on the desktop. A synchronization of files to be like the equivalent of Microsoft Windows Write to 1.0.

The Groove, rewritten from the beginning, once more. Ray Ozzie simply can not stop rewriting this damned app, again and again and again, and in every 5-7 years time.

And the fact that customers never asked for this feature, and none of the earlier versions really zul as a huge platform does not stop him.

How on earth, Microsoft continues to pour massive resources into building the same pitomý synchronization platforms again and again? Damn, they just finished building the so-called Windows Live FolderShare and I have noticed is not exactly to the Stampede. I'll bet you've never heard. At the 3398th website, which allows you to upload and download files to place on the Internet. I am so fever I might just die.

I would really not one. What Microsoft shareholders want their money building waste, instead of earning good dividends of two or three fabulous monopoly, it is not my business. I am not a shareholder. It is a bit concerned about me, intellectually, that there are those people running around acting like they are building the next big thing, for us to maintain the exact same TV dinner that I did not want on Sunday evening, and I did not want to, when they tried to serve again Monday evening, and you crunched it and mixed in some cheeses, and I did not eat Tuesday night, and here it is in the middle and you have rebuilt the entire damned TV industry dinner on the ground, and you have me 1955 Salisbury steak that I simply do not want to. What is it will take you to get the message that customers do not want what architecture astronauts just love to build. The people? Their love štěbetat. A flickr and delicious and Picasa and tripit and ebay and one million other things, entertainment, who want to " synchronization problem is not the real problem, it's entertainment programming that you're doing, because it's just hard enough to be interesting, but not so hard that you can not see it.

Why do I really care is that Microsoft is vacuuming up too many programmers. Between Microsoft, with their questionable unethical employers making explosive offers nothing to unsuspecting college students, and Google (you're on my radar) unsustainable paying the salaries of children Ultimate Frisbee with more experience than Python, whose main task will play Foosball in the Googleplex and walk around trying to get someone ... someone will come ... look at the sample code, which only with the written "20% of the time," doing any kind, I will argue, cloud-based synchronization ... Microsoft and Google among the initial salary for chip CS grad is slow dangerously close to six figures and those smart kids, the cream in our universities, working in hopeless and pointless architecture astronomy, because these companies are, such as cancer, driven by growth at all costs, even if they can not think for a single useful thing to build for us, but they need another sci Grads 3000-4000 company next week. A hell Foosball plays himself.

Adventures in Office Space

2008-06-29T05:19:00.003-07:00

28.March2008
"We lost some time because a deal to expand at our current location fell through - it turned out that the extra floor we wanted was not actually, to use the real estate jargon, 'available."

From Adventures in Office Space, my latest column in Inc.. Magazine.

P.S.! Neil reminds me that you've only got until the end of the week to register for the Business of Software conference at the early low rate ($ 1395 instead of $ 1795).

Conversations

2008-06-29T05:19:00.001-07:00

28.March2008
Yes! I am still doing the weekly podcast with Jeff. We are already eight out of them.

We are on the move, though, IT calls, a huge network of amazing sound technology shows. Just looking at all the major shows that there is I feel a bit like a child in jeans and T-shirt with the slogan dirty who just walked into the Chez Panisse.

The new feed, IT Conversations-feed is based on http://rss.conversationsnetwork.org/series/stackoverflow.xml.

The easy way to log on to iTunes, choose Advanced | Subscribe to Podcast, paste that URL, and you all.

Desks

2008-06-29T05:18:00.000-07:00

21.March2008
The reader wrote in to ask what kind of panels we will use for the new office.

Ergonomics experts always want to have flat feet on the floor. So you have to adjust your seat height first. Then, hands should be horizontal, while you are typing. This means that you need height-adjustable keyboard.

Most of the height-adjustable keyboard trays are extremely annoying ... They are floppy disks, poor, and reduce the keyboard in one place. Therefore, we decided to obtain the tables where the entire worksurface can be raised and lowered.

Finally, many people praise the benefits of standing up to the part of, even if they spend all day at the computer, so we wanted tables, where the worksurface could rise to the "anti-height" so you could have a job. And if you're going to be standing and sitting, it is better to have board with a button, the electric motor, so you will not be lazy about such negotiations.

Finally, we settled on the details adjusTables Series 7th We did not like the surface table that they came up with (with rounded corners and chwmpasa profile, it's simply too bla), so we ordered from their own reception area with Steelcase " knife edge profile. That is the board look like paper-thin:

Don't hide or disable menu items

2008-06-16T08:38:00.000-07:00

17.March2008
Do not hide or disable menu

Once upon a time ago, it has become fashionable, even recommended that the item in the menu to turn off when they could not be used.

Not do it. Users look at the menu with disabilities who want to click on, and are left with no idea of what to do to the menu item to work.

Instead of holiday menu item allowed. If there is any reason you can not complete action menu item can receive a message telling the user why.