Month: December 2003

WiFi Best Practices.  Jeff Flax does not like WiFi. Not At All. He says: Placing a wireless access point (antenna) on a firm’s system reduces the security of the network to the “hackability” of the wireless system. This is like putting a wall around the White House, but then leaving open the backdoor of the… Continue reading WiFi Best Practices

An OK Use of Flash.  For reasons I've explained in detail elsewhere, Flash animations are nearly always a mistake as used on law firm web sites. Larry Bodine's blog points out one exception, Preston Gates' use to provide a “virtual tour.” What's different about this use? Mainly the fact that it's “optional.” While some people… Continue reading An OK Use of Flash

Winter Carnival Visit to Quebec City, Canada. Last Thanksgiving Day I posted about the Ice Hotel in Quebec City, Canada, one of my favorite destinations from New York. Quebec takes its winter seriously. From January 20 to February 15, Quebec will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the… [cloudtravel]

The Digital Practice of Law Blog. Litigation technology expert Michael Arkfeld has a new blog and book. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Kevin Werbach: The Battle of ICANN. It's worrisome that ICANN insiders still think the best response is to insist that ICANN is just a boring technical coordination body. If that were the case, ICANN wouldn't have nearly the influence, visibility, and funding level it enjoys. [Tomalak's Realm]

AskTog: When Good Design => Bad Product. What a trained quality assurance professional brings to the software party is a knowledge of how to put together a test plan, one that systematically looks at the full range of every feature under all reasonably expected conditions, including edge conditions. [Tomalak's Realm]

Feedback about XAML wanted. Rob Relyea (program manager for XAML) asks “what is missing from or broken about XAML?”  [The Scobleizer Weblog]

How to make really good bug reports. One of the best ways to help a developer improve their software is to report bugs. But of course there’s an art to bug reporting. Most of the bug reports I get for NetNewsWire are very good. But now and again I get a report that isn’t that… Continue reading How to make really good bug reports

Update: DEVONthink Personal Edition 1.7.3. The personal knowledge base and content management application adds some fixes for Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, improved conversion of HTML pages to rich text, better support for links inside RTF documents, and many other changes. [MacInTouch]

SCO using Samba source code: permission granted or not?. I've never told anyone about this before. In 1997, I collaborated for a few weeks with one of the developers of VisionFS on decoding the NT Domain protocols. Both VisionFS and Samba are windows-compatible file, print and login servers. The issue is that whilst our cooperation… Continue reading SCO using Samba source code: permission granted or not?