Month: March 2003

Congrats to Microsoft for shipping Windows Server 2003 to manufacturing. This news might not get noticed by geeks (it should, they made some impressive gains around security, scalability, and performance with it), but I know the server group at NEC is happy to have been getting killer results with it.  [The Scobleizer Weblog]

First look at InfoPath. The next version of Microsoft Office is, among other things, a family of XML editors. I have discussed the XML modes of Word and Excel (see XML for the rest of us and “Exploring XML in Office 11”), and described the newest member of this family, InfoPath 2003, a tool for… Continue reading First look at InfoPath

Freedom to Tinker: Use a Firewall, Go to Jail. The states of Massachusetts and Texas are preparing to consider bills that apparently are intended to extend the national Digital Millennium Copyright Act. (TX bill; MA bill) The bills are obviously related to each other somehow, since they are textually similar. Here is one example of… Continue reading Use a Firewall, Go to Jail

Publishing a project weblog. A couple of years ago I predicted that Weblogs would emerge within the enterprise as a great way to manage project communication. I'm even more bullish on the concept today. If you're managing an IT project, you are by definition a communication hub. Running a project Weblog is a great way… Continue reading Publishing a project weblog

Central Thoughts. After we completed the MX products last spring, it was time to begin what I believe is the next logical step–creating a better environment for Internet applications that bridges the bridges the gap between the desktop and the web, emerging out of the constraints of the browser. This is the mission for Macromedia… Continue reading Central Thoughts

Law Firms Not Alone in Using Old Operating Systems. Interesting collection of articles on companies using outdated operating systems. [DennisKennedy.blog]

How CIOs Are Responding to Economic Pressures. Good discussion of CIO responses to current economic situation. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Location-enhanced web: get people out of the house. “We knew there were quite a few webloggers in London – we sometimes meet up – but no one knew how many or where they were,” he says. People do know now – or at least they know to which tube stations the 350 bloggers who have… Continue reading Location-enhanced web: get people out of the house

Detecting social networks via email. The trio wondered if they could identify distinct communities within Hewlett-Packard's research lab simply by analysing the IT manager's log of nearly 200,000 internal emails sent by 485 employees over a couple of months. They plotted the links between people who had exchanged at least 30 emails with each other,… Continue reading Detecting social networks via email

Web Site Optimization review. Smart people have said nice things about “Speed Up Your Site”. I have not read the book, but the markup on the book's companion site is impressively optimized.  [dive into mark]