A taste of development

May 29, 2008

Working large business problems in our minuscule toolbox application. A use case for Project Distributor.

Filed under: Technology —Tagged , , , — simma1990 @ 11:55 am

Project Distributor: Introduction to our staggered web service model
So Darren and I have assigned in about a month at present on the Project Distributor website. We are begining to progress to that decisive point where the site is pretty coolheaded, we have plenty of users, we are thinking of operating out of the permissible bandwidth for the demo site, and all sorts of other things that lean to bechance all at erstwhile. At present, there are some problems you can plan yourself out of, and others that you in truth have to hold some money at. Our up-to-the-minutest enhancements can be summarized up in a little list.

  • Grease one’s palms a domain name and take up hosting in two places. Project Distributor.com should be up fairly before long to company MarkItUp.ASPXConnection.com
  • Have people host their ain versions of the application. And that implies a large source release is in the future. At this juncture risk fragmentation.
  • Design out fragmentation with a series of cunning features that will get everyone desire to employ the application at hand.

I’m hither to talk about the last two, since Darren already corrupted some extra hosting for us. The concept will be to free a fairly static version of the application so that groups can host tools, code snippets and other source/binary releases for their teams to partake in. The application is very lightweight and well-heeled to set-up, so it won”t require a bunch of hand holding and configuration to get up and running initially. From our standpoint we resolve a number of issues at this juncture. The most obvious problem is what we separate the Lutz Roeder use case..NET Reflector is the central type of application we’500 love to catch hosted because it makes believe it a bit well-fixed to find oneself, not that Google does a tough job, we’d simply like to get a bunch of tools in one place, with some features for feedback, novel releases, and some nerveless client tools for printing.

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There can be only if one… with data

Filed under: Technology —Tagged , , — simma1990 @ 11:43 am

Sean & Scott  [fixated link]: The example you yielded is outstanding, although I would advise something a little more robust, specifically you believably desire to take into account data to pass between the already escaping instance and the newfangled one made (this takes into account you to mobilise the command line arguments). I pent an article on this last year… however holding up data marhsalling makes believe the code much much more awful.

BTW, there were some underage bugs in the single instance logic that were fixed in next article in the series.

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Career history

Filed under: Technology —Tagged , , — simma1990 @ 9:55 am

Taking “On Going a Leader” has been really interesting, more often than not because it intimates that a central differentiator of leaders is the vision that leaders allow for, while others are contented to be aimed. Interestingly I have been passing a lot of time at work stressing to see what I should be stressing to do… I have been taking a lot of people to strain and infer what my role should be, but alternatively I should have been specifying my vision. Coincidently enough I’ve been working a vision document around developers as a core customer base…

Thinking about my career path is interesting. I began software development in grade school. I indited a math quiz program that we used for about 1 day in class. I composed some interesting stuff in mediate school; Snake Bit, a Nibbles clone – although at the time I was cloning Snake Byte, an Apple II program, and a GUI environment… although I may have indited that closer to high-pitched school… In high-pitched school I settled that I was geting into architecture and carryed several classes. Finally I made up one’s mind that I passed more time configuring and reading AutoCAD than I was learning about architecture, so I made up one’s mind to carry on down the software course.

I have fermented a bunch of fastfood/retail jobs, but the one of interest for this story is Waldensoftware. When I went out they had just been corrupted out by Electronic Boutique (at present EBX). It was interesting to view a brick and mortar bookseller like Waldenbooks execute a software store… anyhow, more on that later – the interesting note is that it was at Waldensoftware that I started talking with lots of software people. At the time Waldensoftware was a fairly book pointed store, so we let lots of factual developers in. Hither I encountered Jim Flippin. He was a steady customer.

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Why I detest Radio

Filed under: Technology —Tagged , — simma1990 @ 8:43 am

Why, oh why, did Radio adjudicate that an HTML page was the way to follow up a client application?? I have mislaid 2 big entries so far with Radio… once I intrusted the “sin” of snaping an icon on my desktop… IE navigated to that page, my entry was run… just at present, I unexpectedly snaped the back button on my mouse, boom! another entry run.

Paid that Radio is a “sassy client” application (being that it gos a all over WEB SERVER) on my machine, why couldn’t they really drop a line a existent client application to do editing?

Oh well… i real require to drop a line my ain blog authoring tool…

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Claimspace, a Recollective Tail Recognition System

Filed under: Technology —Tagged , — simma1990 @ 6:55 am

Robert Rebholz is not but my boss*, he is besides my muse, ideologic sparring partner, change ego, and mentor. Bob is possesed by a extra kind of genius, with a sort of Jeffersonian breadth and intensity that haves it a pleasure and honor to collaborate with him, on a day-to-day basis. In my opinion, Bob is one of two people on Earth who can speak around the BIG idea that is Claimspace , with out-and-out confidence, competence, and credibility. If you have yet a reaching interest in on-line communities of practice, folksonomies , reputation systems, credibility, identity, recommendation systems, rewards, “course”, collaborative filtering, “societal search”, & interrelated areas, I promote you to sign to my RSS feed and Bob’s RSS feed.

Yesterday, Bob mailed an fantabulous post about Claimspace  that wades into the wide river of uses that it might one day support, for both users and “community owners”, across the Web. He quotes the coming after potential utilizes:

  • “Tenacious tail recognition system”
  • Solution to the “Who can I swear? issue”
  • “Vulgarized canvassing mechanism” (and portable)

  • “A bare REST API gives everyone (and I intend everyone — the mashup possibilities are exactly floundering — caveat, preserve the crawl, walk, execute idea in mind) the ability habituate the data in a manner best suited to their needs: community (MVP or other influencer) reward programs, product design input, product feature voting, taping prioritization, and on and on and on, all without a ton of custom code. Any Digg-like application would enjoy this kind of data. Can you envisage – red-hotest claims, red-hotest people cooking claims, most employed claims, novelest claims, by product, by solution area, by geographic region, and the list runs on.”

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Trust Microsoft with Claimspace (my response pending)

Filed under: Technology —Tagged , , , — simma1990 @ 4:55 am

Ted Haeger , aka ReverendTed  of Bungee Labs  (purveyors of the most kill-killski development toolkit for Web 2.0 developers, in the world), merely printed a thought agitative blog post requiring his readers: Can we…?

Confide Microsoft with Claimspace

Ted has in person gainsaid me to answer and I design to do indeed, in the next couple of days. In the meantime, I further you to go over out Ted’s post and press in with your thoughts and opinions, either hither or there.

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LearnExpression.com is unrecorded.

Filed under: Technology —Tagged , , , — simma1990 @ 3:43 am

We latterly plunged our video tutorial site for Expression Web Designer. Dustin, our resident graphical artist is pumping out the video tutorials as good as planing the site utilizing the tool. It’s well to have some how to vids from a designers point of view. Watch out this site throughout 2007 as he extends to extend the content.

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Beating Google ?

Filed under: Technology —Tagged , , , — simma1990 @ 1:55 am

Is there anything more fun than riding about, developing your hair, pledging a Bud while listening to Jethro Tull and ruminating how to exchange the balance of power in the search world and unseat Google ?
Best search ? Too immanent. Better monetization ? After the fact. Best User Interface ? Will we cognise it when we fancy it ? A newfangled and dissimilar search ? Semantic ? Human powered ? We won”t know till we know.

But what about the Google Index, all the websites that are indexed by Google ? What is it deserving to be in the Google Index ? What would you, as a website owner require in order to take your site from the Google Index and no longer be uncommitted when someone does a google search ?

It should simply be a matter of dollars and cents and sense, shouldn’t it ?

How many websites would have to recuse themselves from the Google Index before Google Search was negatively touched on ?
Mahalo.com intends it demands to sustain the 25k most common search terms in order to be successful. What would encounter if MicroSoft or Yahoo or a MicroHoo attended the 5 top results for the top 25k searches and compensated them to allow the Google Index ?

A theoretic maximum of 125k sites, but with overlap, in all probability closer to 100k or less, times how much per site on average ?

The math starts out to pay back interesting. At $1,000 per site median times 100k sites, thats only when $ 1 Billion Dollars. The distribution would plain favour the bigger sites, indeed of that billion dollars, would the top 1k sites get hold of 500k each and the resting 99k parted the rest ? Read the rest of this entry »

May 28, 2008

Where to Find oneself Expert Support

Filed under: Technology —Tagged , , , — simma1990 @ 9:43 pm

Microsoft’s prescribed support website is http://support.microsoft.com/. It has all kinds of resources like product FAQs, downloads, searchable KB articles, newsgroup pointers, and ways to hit people to help with your single needs or feedback.

Alas, I can’t consecrate attention to single customer issues. That’s because I work in product design and development, not customer support. Someone has to be revolved about that, or else we’d ne’er embark anything! Then, I’m moving to have to entrust your questions and comments to MS’s prescribed channels which specialize in that. Please preserve comments you put up hither worldwide and about the loader or performance.

Degrees of optimism in projects

Filed under: Technology —Tagged , , — simma1990 @ 8:30 pm

Whenever I head a project, I e’er essay to plan in such a way that arranges me and my team up for success.   I do this in many ways, starting with a dear methodology, doing exhaustive analysis, and allowing for a level of risk/certainty on with any estimates I allow for. 

Part of this strategy takes insuring that client expectations couple developer and project expectations.  I be given to utilize the essayed and honest approach; “Plan for the spoiled, hope for the betterest”.

Some people view me as a pessimist, but I implore to dissent – I view myself a misanthropical, yet affirmative, realist.  By that, I think of that although I do design everything based upon the spoilt case scenario, in my heart I really consider we are geting going to reach the betterest case scenario every time.  It oft surprises me when people read my approach to be electronegative while at the same time, I frequently consider their set about primitive & overly affirmative.

The truth is that there appears to be a gradient scale of attitudes and philosophies employed from project to project depending upon the people conducting and participating in the project.

Over the years, I began a individual game in my head of making nicknames for the dissimilar patterns of behavior.  Hither are a few names of I have toyed with in the past:

“Require the spoiled, then add 20%” - The Pessimist

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