Dude, Bernie Madoff stole FIFTY BILLION DOLLARS. In a PONZI SCHEME. Which is the criminal equivalent of convincing people you are going to fly to the moon in a refridgerator box. The single, unpleasant truth is that most people, particularly criminals, are NOT complex. They are shallow, greedy sons of bitches to whom we attribute genius planning or complex motivations in order to preserve a false sense of order in our universe.
-- John Rogers
With the release of Firefox 3.5, all major browsers now support a version of @font-face font embedding.
The odd man out (surprise surprise!) is Internet Explorer, which only supports the EOT format, as compared to Gecko and WebKit-based browsers that support TTF and OTF formats.
However, this is not the big barrier remaining. It is fairly trivial to convert TTF to EOT. The bigger problem is that most fonts are not licensed to use on the web -- even free ones.
Well, I've just learnt more about fonts than I ever really wanted to.
The issue was that the Australian Standard for legibility on a computer screen specifies certain minimum heights, but "height" for a font can mean many different things. For example:
The EU's antitrust ruling against Intel is making lots of waves in the blogosphere at the moment.
Nigel Dessau from AMD has made a series of thoughtful posts on the issue.
This list of 14 project management applications is worth a look, if only because it provides a number of very different options for interaction, rather than the countless cookie-cutter versions of task lists that exist.
One of the more common requirements for the modern IT department is to customize an commercial off-the-shelf, or COTS, software package to fulfil a complex business requirement.
However, in these situations it is rare for the COTS package to stand alone. Typically it will be a central "hub" for multiple actors to interact (eg your typical HR package) and/or will integrate with other business systems, such as a central authentication directory, a custom data entry point etc.
Recently I have been thinking a lot about the impact of collaborative tools on workplace interruptions.
In the old days of computers, PCs could only work on one task at a time. This naturally discouraged task switching, since there was a cost of setting up and quitting the application. Instead, people completed the task they were on before moving on to the next one.
A lovely little tutorial on ways to write understandable spreadsheets.
As someone who has been guilty of spreadsheet spaghetti code in the past, I should probably pay more attention to this. In particular, colour-coding inputs and outputs makes a lot of sense.
Unfortunately, I don't know who to thank for this ripper tip about SharePoint:
Any installation of WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 is no complete with PowerShell. Why? Because it makes situations like this so easy.
Save the following as SharePoint.ps1:
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::Load("Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c"); function Get-Site($absoluteUrl) {
Another post on the nuts and bolts of putting together business documents.
A charter or terms of reference (TOR) document outlines a basis for the exercise of authority by a group. The group may be an existing team, or specially formed for the purposes of fulfilling the charter or TOR.
