by ezs | Sep 8, 2006 | 'Web 2.0', evilzenscientist, Linux, Uncategorized
A colleague from Novell moved to Collanos – I looked at their products – and it’s interesting.
The Collanos Workplace seems to fill several of my needs for working with my team:
– document sharing and management
– team task lists
– discussions
– cross platform
Most importantly – the model is peer-to-peer. That means that none of my ‘corporate data’ ever lives on someone elses server. That was one of the major downsides to using something like Backpack or Basecamp. (Cool – but kinda interesting from a risk and security angle).
By having this ‘built’ and in the web it also means I don’t have to build an internal server, manage it, keep it safe, back it up – and also use VPN to get data in and out of it.
Feedback soon. I’ve sent the team the data – we should be running in a couple of days.
by ezs | Aug 30, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Technology, Uncategorized
No names..
by ezs | Aug 28, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
37signals won’t let me post an image 🙁
Here’s my beautiful thing:
by ezs | Aug 14, 2006 | blogging, evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
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.
by ezs | Aug 12, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
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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
by ezs | Aug 11, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
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!
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