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  • Creating New Product Strengths with Art

    I posted previously about undergoing a review of your true product strengths . But what if you realize there isn’t as much overlap between customer usage/demand and your product? You have to start over and try to redefine what your product strengths Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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  • Selenium Server in NAnt

    When configuring our Selenium tests to run out build server, one issue I ran into is that there wasn’t a lot out there in terms of how to get this set up. A few people had posted about having done it, but not how they did it. Overall, it isn’t Read More......( read more ) Read More...

  • Team City & its levels of awesome

    Recently, I’ve been working on migrating our build process at Telligent from using Cruise Control .NET to use JetBrain’s Team City. Cruise Control has served us well, but after looking at the feature set of Team City, it had a number of things Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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  • One Less Step

    Every step a user must take provides a chance for failure and frustration. Compare these two shipping confirmation emails from 1-800-Flowers and Zappos. 1-800-Flowers Zappos   1-800-Flowers actually says, “2 easy steps”. However, what they are not Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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  • Passionate Programmer - Review

    Chad Fowler’s, " Passionate Programmer "[1] is a definite must read for any developer who gives a damn about his or her career. I had heard about Passionate Programmer before but didn't it give it much thought until after hearing Joe O'Brien Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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  • Act As If… Quality was Contagious

    Because it is.  If you write sloppy work items and specifications why would your developers write good code?  Bad bug reports… these are fixes with regressions that are just waiting to be found.  Poor requirements… these are just bad implementations Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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  • A simple process for recording your product demo videos

    Someone recently asked me how I created the Telligent Community 5.0 demo video that you can watch here .  The thing that made this the easiest was TechSmith’s Camtasia Studio product .  Using their fine software as a base I was able to use the Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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  • Google Reader on an iPhone

    I have tried a variety of tools for reading my Google Reader feeds on my iPhone. Google’s mobile browser – works well, but requires a constant connection and little third party tool integration Feeds – likely the most disappointing app I have ever purchased Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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  • Qizmt – MapReduce On Windows

    A very interesting announcement by the folks at MySpace : Today, we are open-sourcing Qizmt, an internally developed framework for distributed computation created by the Data Mining team here at MySpace. Qizmt can be used for many operations that require Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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  • What Apps do you Rock on your Phone?

    Apparently the iPhone club ran out of cool people to "tag" in their little discussion about what pages they browse to most frequently on their expensive phones. Well, since my phone has had an SDK for a lot longer than theirs I'm going to Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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  • Alpha Release: Windows Live Writer Feed Insert Plugin

    I've published an alpha release of a Windows Live Writer plugin that makes it easy to pull multiple RSS or Atom feed items into a blog post. Let me know what you think. The download link is here: http://evolvingwe.com/files/FeedInserterAlpha.zip This Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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  • Rich Text Editor Control on Codeplex

    I was pushing for this release when I was at Microsoft and while I can't explain what took so long I'm just happy that the code has finally been released. Building a Rich Text Editor control is not for the faint of heart, but now you have a starting Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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  • I've switched

    No, not that switch yet, although seeing ScottW get a 5.1 on the Vista experience score on his Macbook Pro sure makes it tempting. I've finally given up on IE 7 as a default web browser in Vista. For some reason it crashes constantly on me. At first Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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  • Installing Windows 7 64bit on a Unibody MacBook Pro

    Installing Vista 64bit on my original MacBook Pro took quite a bit of work and a bit of hacking. Thankfully, on my new Unibody 13inch MacBook Pro’s it is drop dead simple. Here is what I did: 1. Setup a BootCamp partition and install Windows 7 64bit. Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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  • PureText

    PureText is one of the first tools I always find myself missing as soon as I set up a new Windows box. Have you ever copied some text from a web page or a document and then wanted to paste it as simple text into another application without getting all Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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  • Great Pandora Applications

    Recently I started to use/listen to Pandora quite a bit. Initially, I had just listened via a browser, but over the last couple of weeks I have come across a couple tools that enhance the Pandora experience without a browser. First, if you are not familiar Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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  • Free Graffiti Themes

    Dana Coffey has been posting some nice looking free Graffiti CMS blog themes . I've converted a few free Wordpress themes for use in Graffiti CMS. I'm offerring them here for download. Note, that I left the original designer's credit in the Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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  • Installing Vista 64bit on a MacBook Pro

    This week, I found myself needing a Windows computer with an x64 OS. The only hardware I have at home which is x64 (64bit) capable is my MacBook Pro, so I decided to rebuild my Boot Camp partition with Vista x64 w/SP1. While MacBook Pro's are x64 Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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  • NetNewsWire

    I have been trying to resist writing too much about the new iPhone. As has been previously reported it has many warts which I hope will be cured soon. However, in the end, it really is a killer device. As many of you know, I am a big fan of Google Reader Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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  • Resume and Interview Manager

    I have been searching around for an application which manages resumes and interviews, but I have not been able to find one. Here is what I am looking for. Resume is submitted to HR (email, form, etc) Resume and other information is added to the "Application" Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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  • RSS to Evernote

    I am a big fan of Evernote and I have been trying to use it more often for centralizing and managing content that matters to me the most. In many cases, this is content to which I receive in my aggregator. Evernote makes it really easy to take content Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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  • Community Server 2008.1

    Josh gives the low down on what you can expect to see in Community Server 2008.1 . Quick Summary: Themes - Hawaii is getting a really nice make over. Q&A - This is a killer forums feature which needed a little love to put it over the top. If you use Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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  • Mac Blogging - 2

    Windows Live Writer is still best desktop blogging tool on the "market", but as the name implies it only works on Windows. I had been using TextMate for a while, but I have been wanting something a bit richer. After a bit of debugging and testing Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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  • Locking Down Community Server 2008.1

    We're only a couple of weeks away from a beta release of Community server 2008.1. As previously discussed this is the first of a more rapid pace of releases for the Community Server product. (There is a public roadmap we've produced that I'm Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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  • What to expect in CS 2008.1 this fall

    I'm sure a bunch of you just got done installing CS 2008 or upgrading to SP1 for CS 2008, but I want to give you the lowdown on what you can expect this fall with the release of CS 2008.1. Schedule The first thing you'll notice is that I said Read More......( read more ) Read More...
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