Interesting post over on The Furrygoat Experience (by Steve Makofsky) talking about his opinion on the apparent death of client side apps. I’ve seen a couple of posts on various sites over the last twelve months or so on how they think all applications will eventually become web based. This may (or may not) be
Learning Something New
When i was reading Susannes post entitled “What is the backward P at the end of my sentence” i initially thought “I already know how to toggle paragraph marks” What i didn’t realise is that they have a specific name :- a Pilcro Just a useless bit of trivia i’m pleased to learn as i’ll
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Windows Defender Problem
Happy New Year! I noticed a lot of people posted to their blogs over the christmas period i wasn’t one of them. I barely touched a computer over Christmas and new year. Mainly new to my nine month old daughter! Last night my other half noticed an error message on my laptop. Something to do
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Christmas Cheer!
This will probably be my last post for a while as i’m planning on enjoying my break! Found a game this morning called Qwerty Warriors (i think) The idea of the game is to shoot the oncoming enemy by typing a word that appears under their name Wish i had this when i was first learning
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Putting the cat amongst the pigeons
I wasn’t going to comment on this but i’ve changed my mind Susanne blogged a while back asking about Microsoft’s strategy for Office & Vista in the small business marketplace and why they should make the move.(This was also followed up by a post by Vijay) At the time i agreed with many of her
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Post Christmas Presents!
My RSS reader is on it’s last legs. I use RSS Bandit and have been quite impressed by it since i started using it I do have a big problem with it at the moment. Posts have started appearing in other feeds A few days ago i clicked on Amanda Murphy’s Xbox & SharePoint blog only be treated
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Homebrew Games
Something i’ve been watching with interest is Microsoft XNA I’m (just!) old enough to remember when games didn’t have huge budgets, teams of developers, HD graphics and orchestra like soundtracks and that anyone could write one in their own bedroom. When i first started to learn BASIC all i wanted to do was write games and was delighted
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SMTP Relaying
Uh oh, two rants in a row! We have a customer that uses a database application. Part of this application allows you to bulk e-mail people on the database (lets call them clients!) The software gives you two options 1) Let Outlook do the heavy lifting 2) Specify an SMTP server and the software will send
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Good for business?
Over the last few weeks i’d been to meetings with a company that i had dealings with at my previous company. Recently they have been increasingly frustrated and unhappy with the service they have been receiving and since i know some of the staff there personally they got in touch with me and asked if we
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Guess Whose Back?
—26/01/07 Correction to the post. It should read TICK the box instead of Clear— Back in the office today after a week on holiday. Work was so mad up until i left i didn’t get a chance to post much I did mention in my last post that i had a problem getting WSUS clients to update. I