Month: September 2003

“Can small organizations productively use Exchange Server?”. “Yes,” but you must find a balance between Exchange's productivity features (e.g., calendaring, group scheduling, resource booking, Web-based email access, public folders) and Exchange's resource requirements (e.g., hardware requirements, dependence on Active Directory–AD)…. [MS Exchange Blog]

Update to my Laszlo OPML viewer. I love updates.  Especially when they appear automaically and I don't have to do anything.  Sarah Allen just gave me such an update.  Now all of you can check out the source code used to create my Laszlo OPML Viewer widget. steal this widget With a little help from… Continue reading Update to my Laszlo OPML viewer

Technology News from Wired News – Windows to Power ATMs in 2005. Within three years, most bank machines that dispense cash will run on the Windows operating system, according to a study published last week. By 2005, 65 percent of bank ATMs (not including free-standing machines in places like convenience stores and casinos) in the… Continue reading Wired News

The “Real” New Economy?. RainmakerThinking Inc., a leadership development firm led by Bruce Tulgan, author of Managing Generation X, recently released the findings of a 10-year study on changes in the American workplace. The report's key points include: Work has become more demanding on employees. Employer-employee relationships have become less hierarchical and more transactional. Employers… Continue reading The “Real” New Economy?

ColdFusion MX Coding Guidelines Updated. I have finally published the long-promised Release 3.0 of the ColdFusion MX Coding Guidelines. A couple of sections are untouched from last year's version but most of the document has had a substantial overhaul to bring it up to our current best practice … [An Architect's View]

Change My Life I'm sitting at Demo Mobile 2003 in La Jolla, California and I'm having a great time.  To tell the truth, it's not the conference (although it's fun, with the usual good mix of networking, new products, and California sunshine).  What's making this a special occasion is that I'm using my Toshiba Tablet… Continue reading

Change My Life

I'm sitting at Demo Mobile 2003 in La Jolla, California and I'm having a great time.  To tell the truth, it's not the conference (although it's fun, with the usual good mix of networking, new products, and California sunshine). 

What's making this a special occasion is that I'm using my Toshiba Tablet to take notes and it's WiFi enabled — and this conference is Wi-Fi enabled, too.  So whenever I get a little bored (not every demo is going to be your cup of tea, after all), I can surf the net. 

So far I have found that I was quoted in the Wall Street Journal article on yesterday's annnouncement by Microsoft and IBM on Web Services, kept track of the Hurricane (which makes being in California even better),  and checked up on three of the more interesting companies who presented, by surfing to their web sites.  I wonder how I ever lived before WiFi.

Better yet, my conference companion (conferences are much more fun if you are attending with someone you like who you can share the event with) is lawyer and software entrepreneur Buzz Bruggeman.  We've just used the WiFi connection to download his ActiveWord for the Tablet PC software to my tablet and now I can surf to my favorite websites with just a few character strokes entered from wherever I happen to be.  (Getting to this blog went from 30 keystrokes to 6, for example.)   

You, too, can save energy on tablets or desktops — check out ActiveWord at www.ActiveWords.com

T-Mobile Rolls out Kinko's Stores, Discusses Roaming. Breaking News: T-Mobile and Kinko's make their rollout announcement tomorrow: T-Mobile said it would build hotspots in Kinko's shops ages ago. But tomorrow the two companies are pulling off a big shebang in Dallas to announce that 170 stores will be live at the end of October, and… Continue reading T-Mobile Rolls out Kinko's Stores, Discusses Roaming

How Much Information Technology Support is Enough? How much IT support should firms provide to users? Many firms answer this question via benchmarking (that is, comparing spending and staffing to comparable firms). Lawyers are demanding “customers.” They want a lot of support and, when they want it, they want it now. By and large, that… Continue reading How Much Information Technology Support is Enough?

Scenarios of Future Law Firms Rely Heavily on Technology This past weekend, I attended the annual meeting of the College of Law Practice Management. The attendees are a mix of lawyers and law firm managers (including chief administrators, marketers, HR, and technology). We spent an entire morning working in small teams. Each team had the… Continue reading Scenarios of Future Law Firms Rely Heavily on Technology

You call that a backup plan?. As discussed with many people, the fact of the matter is, as a one-man shop, if I got hit by a bus tomorrow, this place would be in a world of hurt. There are simply too many things that I know how to do that absolutely no one else… Continue reading You call that a backup plan?