May 2004 Entries
Why is it such a great day to create interoperable services, you ask? Well, (thanks to Dave Bettin for the heads up!) because WSE 2.0 has been released.
Let's just say that I'm extremely excited. Take-a-day-off-and-play-with-this excited. I'm a bit bummed that there's no WS-RM, but at this point, you won't hear me complain. I will say this -- I really hope that the next release cycle is a wee bit shorter. WSE is the “speedboat” for WS-I early adopters -- here's to hoping it stays off the reef.
I was reading Michael Earl's blog (aka The Cerebal Kitchen) this morning and came across his “Idea brain dump”. One of the items caught my eye, and so I decided to make it happen... That is, the “mark a url for followup” idea.
The basic idea is to make a right-click (context) menu item appear when you right click on a hyper link. This menu item would then add a task to your task list to follow up on the link you clicked.
The scary thing is, I don't think people realize just how easy it is to add context menu items...
As I was installing Windows codename “Longhorn” build 4074, I noticed that my computer was displaying a message: (sorry if the wording isn't exact. It's at least very close)
“Feel free to do something else or leave. Just come back in about 10 minutes.”
I love this! After installing six different OS versions / types on virtual PC's, I could never remember if the next step would just chug along for 30 minutes, or ask for two more button clicks in about 2 minutes. If I guessed wrong one way, I was chained to my computer for no reason. Guessing wrong the other would...
On the persistent menu on a web site I’m working on, I have a menu item – “View / Search Lists”. Every time I look at this item, I feel bad… why? It’s a lie.
What it really does is show the user the name of the lists they have. So shouldn’t it be “Show available lists”? You can’t search them. You don’t view the details. In short, the menu item is a lie.
I see this in a lot of software – like the blatant “Go to my email inbox” in Windows Messenger that really means “Click here to get pitched ‘add-ins’,...