On this day – some twenty years ago – November 10th, 1983, Microsoft Windows was announced – it should be on the shelves April 1984. It didn’t make it there until November 20, 1985, that first Windows 1.0 was on the street.
Archive for 2003
From negatives to digital
Sep 27
Last weekend I got a bunch of old vacation photos (from my pre-digital photography days) scanned from negatives. Due to some accidental circumstances we couldn’t get hold of the air compressor needed to clean (blow dust off) the negatives and that has been quite a pain. The problem is that even small dust particles become [...]
Office Space
Sep 25
While project management often focuses on management of the processes, information management and other work issues, one of the most important areas often overlooked IMHO is the physical environment and how it may improve efficiency of the project workers. Joel Spolsky just moved is company to a new office and spent some time to figure [...]
It seems producers of drinking water, soft drinks and other bottled liquids have a hard time deciding how to tell how much is in one of their containers. Lately I’ve been wondering why they write the content measurement the way they do.
It seems it’s going surprisingly well for java after a rough birth and slow adoption. This year on the JavaOne conference they celebrated the success by changing their logo and launching a new end-user oriented portal at java.com. If you’re developer, your source for information is still at java.sun.com.
I don’t know how many (Internet development) projects I’ve been on, but it’s quite a lot through the years. One thing happening over and over again is that all the ambitious goals of the project isn’t quite reached before the launch – and something is either cut short or not quite as polished as it [...]
Goa and Karnataka
Mar 14
Our first visit to India was to Goa. We went there for two weeks, and during our stay, we also traveled to Karnataka a few days by trains to see Tigers and Elephants at a scantuary.
Mysql insider
Mar 6
To write efficient Mysql-powered applications a little insight in how Mysql works is needed. One often overlooked example of this is Mysqls silent column changes features, which may cause your tables to look different than you specified.
The Meeting Clock
Mar 5
I’m sure the concept of pointless meetings is familiar – too many people gathered to discuss some issue but after spending hours together no decision has been reached – only the next meeting with a few more people. Here’s one tool which might help a little. I should begin by noticing that the idea is [...]