Archive for December, 2007

Mind of Mindomo

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Recently, a business partner and myself were discussing various methods of sharing and brainstorming business models and ideas in real time.

We knocked around several ideas and products including Visio and Omnigraffle. Both of us had used these products in the past and while happy with them they didn’t meet our exact needs. Enter Mindomo.com, an […]

I Want More Ruby

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

Ruby derailed? Ruby has gained considerable notoriety recently due to a web framework called Rails which makes the deployment of web servers so easy that you hardly need to know the underlying language, Ruby.

But what about Ruby itself? I came to Ruby fairly recently, without knowledge of, or interest in, Rails. I have been surprised […]

GanttProject

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

I am a Sales Strategic Planning manager who needs to visualize business processes, as well as show easy to understand Gantt charts.

For those of you who don’t want to spend the money on a full-blown Microsoft Project application, I recommend GanttProject. GanttProject is a project scheduling application written in Java, featuring gantt charts, PERT […]

Little Planets

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Creating very cool “little worlds” such as those seen on Flicker is very easy and makes for great photographs and talking points. In order to make your own Little Planets you’re going to need three things.

Your digital photographs

A panorama tool (like Panorama Factory)

An image editor that can do polar co-ordinates (like Photoshop)
Once you have these […]

Countdown To Visual Studio 2008

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Less than 2 weeks until Visual Studio 2008!

Developers only have less than two weeks to wait for the next major software release to affect them thanks to a recent commitment by Microsoft to release the latest incarnation of its IDE (integrated development environment), Visual Studio 2008, by the end of November. Visual Studio has come […]