How Google runs its engineering. Here's a fascinating article in Fast Company about how Google is run. It has some very non-standard engineering management practices, which are working out pretty well for it: When Rosing started at Google in 2001, “we had management in engineering. And the structure was tending to tell people, No, you… Continue reading How Google runs its engineering

The Da Vinci Code: the review. Everybody likes a good conspiracy theory: shadowy secret organization holds some incredibly important information and/or wields vast power over most of the world's governmental organizationsmost of the world's governmental organizations … [Nobody Knows Anything]

Useit.Com: Intranet Portals: A Tool Metaphor for Corporate Information. Most importantly, at all the companies we studied, the key issues in building a good intranet portal were political and organizational — not technical. Basically, buying software won't get you a good portal unless you also manage internal company politics. [Tomalak's Realm]

RSS at MSDN: MSDN has RSS feeds… Tim Ewald posts the links. * [Archipelago]

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]