Tag: microsoft
The forced downgrade: going back to Visio for web prototyping
When designing prototypes you could do a lot worse than Visio. But you could also do a lot better. Axure, for example, should make this article irrelevant, as should the fact that I generally have little positive to say about Microsoft in the web realm.
So why this article? Well, I wanted to say a few …
Accessibility may affect feasibility of Sharepoint intranet
Microsoft’s Office Sharepoint Server 2007 packs some cosmetic improvements to accessibility, but considerable development will be needed to resolve out-of-the-box problems.
The brown noses of the BBC
Just over a week ago, I indirectly criticised the BBC for running away to the the Jade Goody media circus. A bad case of overexposure if ever there was one!
Now they’re at it again and this time the Beeb is cosying up to our old friends from Redmond:
Spot the overexposed product!
You see, ever since the …
Flash is 10
Flash is ten years old, as the BBC reports, and for any Internet technology still around after a decade that’s a considerable achievement.
When I started out in web design, it was almost the only medium I worked in, reflecting the tastes of the time. That was before the Flash backlash, led by the arch-headline-grabber himself …
Smart clients dress in grey
I’ve been working on several .NET Smart Clients recently.
A Smart Client is a hybrid application in that the user runs it from the desktop, but its data is provided by a Web Service.
I tend to avoid the dull marketing speak that Microsoft churns out. This kind of output is often a gloopy porridge with just …
Microsoft takes on Adobe / Macromedia
I stumbled across Microsoft Expression this afternoon, quite by chance, really. Expression is a three-product graphics suite for designers. It borrows enormously from Macromedia Studio and a bit of Adobe Photoshop.
It seems to me to be quite a bald response to Macromedia’s buyout, but as usual Microsoft has an angle.
That angle is XAML, the UI …
IE7: worth the wait?
I’ve been roadtesting the beta 1 of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7, which was released to a limited audience (though I gatecrashed myself a copy). How’s it been? Well, I started this item already but it crashed, so that’s a bad start!
Fans of Redmond’s finest (not counting Milt’s Barbecue, of course) have been made to wait …
More IE woes: the curved corner DIV
In my current efforts to adhere to div-only layouts, it was expected that I would eventually get to a sticky point.
I’m not used to hacking CSS, so progress for me has been slow. Hacking CSS is something of an unnatural process, particularly when you feel most comfortable you’re coding pages fluently from a design.
Of course, …
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Kuurne Brussel Kuurne
The 2010 Kuurne Brussel Kuurne was marked by strong winds and heavy rain. We caught up with the riders on the Oude Kwaremont. …
- Originally published: 28 Feb 2010 in Editorial
Death at Intervals
José Saramago Harvill Secker (2008) Author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998 As translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Saramago is the sort of wise old gent we’d want present if we could still …
- Originally published: 3 Jul 2008 in Books
Legend on the prowl
Apparently, a black panther has been spotted stalking through the forest near Arlon. With this latest in a string of sightings, no-one yet seems capable of answering the forgotten question: just how on …
- Originally published: 5 Oct 2009 in Editorial
Oh, we do like to be beside the lakeside
Sometimes, if you’re really sharp, you can make weekends feel like a full week’s holiday. That’s what J and I decided last night, back in the real world at Sheffield’s superlative Pasta …
- Originally published: 7 Aug 2006 in UK
The Gospel According To Jesus Christ
José Saramago Harvill (first published 1999) You can imagine the sort of outraged comments this book will have provoked from many zealous Christians. If online bookseller Amazon certainly intended customer reviews to help sell …
- Originally published: 7 Aug 2008 in Books
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Hello you. I'm Mike Padgett and I work in the technology sector as an Information Designer.
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