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Entries from July 2005

The Design of Everyday Things

July 27th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Content management, Inspiration, Lessons, Non-fiction

As a software architect slowly moving up the software stack (from infrastructure to business logic to application framework to presentation technologies) I find that I more and more attracted to design, aesthetics and usability. So, it was about time for me to read Donald Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things.

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The World Is Flat

July 20th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Content management, Inspiration, Lessons, Non-fiction, Open source, Services

Within the past month, I finished reading The World Is Flat. Now I can follow-up my previous post on this subject.

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More Outlook observations

July 12th, 2005 · No Comments · Lessons, Smart clients, Technology

I have another Outlook gripe to air, but I also want to plug VSTO-O.

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Outlook observations

July 11th, 2005 · No Comments · Technology

Perhaps in sharing these observations help/relief will be (more) forthcoming.

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Dual citizenship and object identity

July 10th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Non-fiction, Random

A book focused on America from a political perspective, Winning the Future, gets me thinking about object identity and multiple inheritance.

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