I just got around to reading Jim McGee's article “Knowledge work as craft work” which is an excellent discussion of visibility in the knowledge management process. McGee gives a great example of how visibility of knowledge has gone away since the arrival of desktop computing. In the pre-PC age, paper documents and deliverables (and the… Continue reading “Knowledge work as craft work”

Top Ten Digital Photography Tips. You've heard this before: Digital cameras do all the work. You just push the button and great pictures magically appear… [xBlog: The visual thinking weblog | XPLANE]

Andy Hertzfeld: “Vista is an experimental prototype whose purpose is to quickly explore various design and feature ideas for Chandler, our networked personal information manager.” [Scripting News]

Visual Studio Magazine ran an interview with Alan Cooper, author of About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design, and The Inmates Are Running the Asylum.  The interview focuses on the topic of software construction, which I've been pondering recently (see October 14).  I don't agree with everything that Cooper says in the article, but… Continue reading Visual Studio Magazine

Using PHP at Yahoo: Excellent presentation that clearly outlines why Yahoo has decided to use PHP over many of the other scripting languages available. This is great stuff. [Via rc3.org via Anil and Camworld]

It's a UN*X box. Just get used to it.. [ via Zeldman ] You'd think that web designers would be happy now that they can test, on their desktops, their work in an environment more or less the same as it'll be in that rackmount at the data center. No, they aren't. It's a culture… Continue reading It's a UN*X box. Just get used to it.

There are no Secrets: Top law firm hit by 'padding' claims. Clifford Chance, the world's largest law firm, is putting so much pressure on its junior lawyers in the US that they are encouraged to over-record the amount of time spent on clients' [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

“Fall back and Spring ahead.” Don't forget to reset your clocks. About Daylight Saving Time – History, rationale, laws & dates.  [Privacy Digest]

The Boston Globe:  This is amazing.  Billions are being poured into the FBI and other governmental organizations and they can't even get the basics right. The FBI in Washington state interviewed a witness last summer who said that John Allen Muhammad, now one of the sniper suspects, was trying to obtain a silencer for his… Continue reading The Boston Globe

My weekly column. For seven weeks now, I've been writing a weekly column on strategic software development issues. It's currently being delivered primarily as an email newsletter, but the columns are now also posted online. I'll blurb them here going forward, and will also collect them in my InfoWorld category. It has its own RSS… Continue reading My weekly column