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Category Archives: Technology

Dean on Google Scale

James Hamilton has a nice writeup of Jeff Dean’s talk at the Google I/O conference. The slides to the talk itself are well worth checking out as well.

Acrobat.com has left the building…

I’m glad I can finally talk more about the project that has been consuming me for the last fifteen months - the first beta release of Acrobat.com. One of the questions the end users of SHARE ask us a lot is whether SHARE is just a short-lived experiment - they worry that Adobe will just [...]

Humorous Microsoft Rant of the Day…

Must be something in the water. Here’s an experienced designer ranting about Expression Blend and WPF. My favorite quote:
I think the message of Blend has some nice takes, but in the end the whole concept of [the] Designer <> Developer processes to me is always couched in developer controlled languages which is Blend’s ultimate failing. [...]

How to customize Mac Word

Hilarious rant about how difficult it is to assign a keyboard command to Find Next in Mac Word. Of course our own buzzword doesn’t offer programmable keyboard shortcuts at all, and it isn’t as Mac-like as it should be sometimes, so I shouldn’t throw stones. But this is so funny I can’t help it…