I often wonder what meetings and presentations were like in the business world before there was PowerPoint. I believe that PowerPoint can be effective when used properly, but why is it that 95% of all presentations are boring with some monotone person standing in front of the room reading off bullet points? A colleague, Dan [...]
How many people have you encountered that you would be confident enough to run a small 2-3 person startup with? To make the question a little more interesting, let's say that company was going to be 100% funded by you or your mom (assuming you actually like her). Try to think of some of past/present [...]
Have you ever watched a sporting event, either live or on T.V., with fellow fans and noticed that everyone agrees when a bad call is made? How come something that is so obvious to everyone around you, is so elusive to the referee? Here is a guy that is paid to make tough, professional judgment [...]
It's a late day at the office and it's your turn to pick up dinner tonight for the family. Damn, it's already 6pm and you can hear your kid's stomachs growling 15 miles away. You were supposed to be at home with dinner on the table no later than 6:30pm. You are now having second [...]
I have switched blogs, and this new one will be coming soon. The plan is to cover personal thoughts and rants about technology and life in general. Subscribe here I look forward to a great 2007. Stay tuned… -ewH
Last year, a big eye opener for me was watching Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth. More recently, I have been reading Thomas Friedman's new book Hot, Flat, and Crowded. It's sad and depressing to watch, even in the span of my own lifetime, what we are doing to our precious planet. In a world [...]
Last week, I was introduced to an application called feedly by one of my fellow Enterprise Irregulars, Anshu Sharma. From the home page, it's described as "…a firefox extension which weaves twitter and Google Reader into a magazine like experience." In Anhsu's blog post, his focus is on the new service called feedly mini; however, [...]
A lot of people ask me if the the lake that I live on in New Jersey freezes in the winter. It does indeed freeze solid, and it's really cool to see the different winter activities on the lake. Some things you would expect, and some others that are a little less known. I have [...]
Last year, a small group of some of my fellow enterprise developers decided to form a small group known as the Enterprise Geeks. Right now the group members are as follows: Craig Cmehil Dan McWeeney Ed Herrmann Rich Heilman Thomas Jung This week we have launched the new site where we will be maintaining a [...]
As Joel Spolsky explains in his post The Iceberg Secret, Revealed, the user interface usually represents less than 10% of the actual functionality of the entire application. You know how an iceberg is 90% underwater? Well, most software is like that too — there's a pretty user interface that takes about 10% of the work, [...]
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