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Archive for January, 2006

Catastrophic Failure

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

A teammate working on the same .NET project at my consulting gig recently experienced the following error while working in Visual Studio 2003.
Not only was the error dialog filled with helpful information, but nothing happened when the developer clicked the “OK” button. No crash, no loss of data, nothing. He just [...]

Waterfall Conference

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

I rarely attend conferences due to budget. Most of them aren’t worth the price and are a very expensive flight from Boston.
However, this year I’m quite interested in Waterfall 2006. Looks like the topics and tutorials will be well worth the cost of travel to Cascade, Illinois.
Anyone else going?

micro-ISV Releases New CRM Product

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Dimitris Giannitsaros of Rapid Signal has announced the first release of his new Customer Relationship Management product Magna CRM.
Congratulations Dimitris!

Company Logo: A Designer’s Take

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Mike Rohde has posted a nice detailed follow-up to my Designing a Company Logo post from yesterday.

What intrigues me is how fun this process can be, particularly for clients. All of the clients who have collaborated in their own logo process have commented on how much they enjoyed it. Knowing clients get a logo they [...]

Procrastination

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Paul Grahm on Good and Bad Procrastination.

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