Beautiful thing
37signals won’t let me post an image 🙁
Here’s my beautiful thing:
Windows Live Writer
Microsoft are renowed for getting ‘usability’ right with their products.
Windows Live Writer is no exception.
Three things I like:
- 1. Installation is easy.
- Download, install – then point at this blog url – and it detected I was running WordPress without any problems.
- No fiddling with the correct url for the XML-RPC side of things. No need to remember that I’m running WordPress. (Remember – this is easy for non-technical people)
- 2. It looks good.
- Hey – I can use Textpad, Wordpad, Pico, Joe, VI or just pipe from the shell if I need to. But often it’s a lot easier just to have something that works and works well.
- It looks a lot like Word – or any other Microsoft Office app.
- 3. In place preview – with your theme.
- Oooh – this is a sexy feature. Look at the screen shots.
Miguel on Mono
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I don’t usually link to Microsoft – this time is an exception.
There is a fascinating interview on Microsoft Technet Port 25.
Here’s the link – http://port25.technet.com/archive/2006/08/11/Let_2700_s-talk-Mono_3A00_–Sam-interviews-Miguel-de-Icaza.aspx
Firewall woes
Flaky hard drive in my firewall server.
Time to replace it methinks. It keeps crashing out with bad surface – and bringing down the firewall and squid box.
Trouble for me if there is no web browsing or email!
Late projects
I was reminded of this via 37signals.
“How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.”
Fred Brooks, software engineer and computer scientist
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