Linda Tischler has an interesting article on Fast Company's site :: The Beauty of Simplicity.
A significant portion covers work by Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer Web products, but there is much more -- interesting views from Royal Philips, MIT's Media Lab, Intuit, etc.
Business Models
Rather than simply focusing on technology of human interaction, Tischler reports on the connection between a companies business model, the simplicity of its UI design, and the ability of customers to understand the business. The report from Phillips is especially interesting.
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Yellow Machine :: cheap terrabyte
Anthology's Yellow Machine looks like a nice solution for anyone with 400 - 1200 gigs of images. Cheap ($1,200) too!
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Crystal Reports for Eclipse
Crystal Reports for Eclipse will be released in Q4 2005.
In addition to an eclipse based application, an embded version will be available. This will allow tight integration with any application based upon the eclipse plug-in architecture.
Who cares?
Anyone who wants to place powerful reporting contol into the hands of a specific class of end users:
Will Crystal Reports for Eclipse support reports based upon POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects) or just relational tables? The answer is probably no. For that BIRT or Jasper Reports is probably required.
Therefore, although Crystal Reports will probably be less powerful than BIRT or Jasper in terms of data it can report on, but it's raw reporting power is impressive and -- often more important -- its tools are familiar to a wide range of power users and desktop level developers.
In addition to an eclipse based application, an embded version will be available. This will allow tight integration with any application based upon the eclipse plug-in architecture.
Who cares?
Anyone who wants to place powerful reporting contol into the hands of a specific class of end users:
- Physicians
- Archiects
- Building Contractors
- Project Managers
- etc.
Will Crystal Reports for Eclipse support reports based upon POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects) or just relational tables? The answer is probably no. For that BIRT or Jasper Reports is probably required.
Therefore, although Crystal Reports will probably be less powerful than BIRT or Jasper in terms of data it can report on, but it's raw reporting power is impressive and -- often more important -- its tools are familiar to a wide range of power users and desktop level developers.
Friday, November 04, 2005
eclipse collaboration in 2005
Check out Ward's map of eclipse committers.
[A 'committer' in open source projects is someone with the right to alter the code base without additional authorization. The committer rights are tied to the individual, not the company she/he works for. A developer gets committer rights from the existing committers, not from any company.
At eclipse.org, two committers are elected to the board of directors. They have voting rights equal to representatives from sponsoring organizations like Oracle, SAP, IBM, Borland, Sybase, etc. who put in up to $250,000 per year, depending upon their revenues.]
[A 'committer' in open source projects is someone with the right to alter the code base without additional authorization. The committer rights are tied to the individual, not the company she/he works for. A developer gets committer rights from the existing committers, not from any company.
At eclipse.org, two committers are elected to the board of directors. They have voting rights equal to representatives from sponsoring organizations like Oracle, SAP, IBM, Borland, Sybase, etc. who put in up to $250,000 per year, depending upon their revenues.]
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