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Out Of The Box : Scared of the Office Ribbon?
Jon Box has produced another interesting post -- this time on the Office Ribbon (aka the Fluent...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 04/29/2008
The Five Stages of Death and Marketing - Deciphering Marketing Speak
Stumbled on this recently, about how finance and marketing work together -- entertaining and...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 04/21/2008
Ever wished for cross-platform Silverlight desktop apps? So has Miguel de Icaza...
From Miguel's de Icaza's web log: Now that controls are part of Silverlight 2.0 and that most of the...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 04/18/2008
You can play with Microsoft Surface today!
If you live in New York, Atlanta, San Antonio, or San Francisco, that is. That's because today...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 04/17/2008
Work in Healthcare or Life Science? Find out what Microsoft is up to!
For those in the Healthcare and Life Sciences industries... Ben Flock sent me some info on what...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 04/17/2008
Jim Womack on Lean vs. Mean
Like many other folks, I got an email today from Jim Womack, founder of the Lean Enterprise...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 04/03/2008
Brian Jones: Open XML Formats
In case you missed it, ISO has approved Open XML as a standard. Brian Jones has more...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 04/02/2008
The point of ISO standardization of Office file formats...
Most of the debate around ISO standardization of Open Office XML file formats -- the native file...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 03/13/2008
How to Tap IT's Hidden Potential - WSJ.com
Good article worth a few minutes here. Likes: The article focuses in on the competitive...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 03/12/2008
Is the web a thing?
There's long been talk of the web as an emerging "platform" -- indeed it is. Of...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 03/05/2008
Microsoft to give out development tools to students | Markets | Markets News | Reuters
Historically, Microsoft's free development tool software program for students has been controlled by...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 02/19/2008
And the winner of the BillG - signed Guitar Hero guitar at ODC 2008 is...
As I mentioned here, we held a raffle earlier today to give away a Guitar Hero III guitar, complete...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 02/14/2008
BillG Keynote at ODC -- see the video and screenshots from the FedEx demo
If you weren't at ODC live to see BillG's keynote, you can see the video here. [Note: updated link...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 02/11/2008
Win a Guitar Hero Guitar signed by BillG!
As I mentioned here in the post about FedEx's awesome announcements and demo, Microsoft and FedEx...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 02/11/2008
FedEx joins BillG on stage at ODC 2008 to announce FedEx QuickShip, and show off Office as a platform, S+S
(Update 1:41pm PST: See screenshots and video here!) I'm at the Office Developers Conference 2008...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 02/11/2008
S+S Example #1: Ford Work Solutions
Computers and software can do lots of interesting things, and more every day. While I love websites...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 02/08/2008
Poppendieck: Ten Simple Rules of Lean Programming
After my last post referring to a webinar by Durward Sobek, he got me thinking again about the...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 02/05/2008
Applying Lean Thinking in software development... model Lean product development
I like what Mark Ramm says here.... There's much that software development can gain from Lean...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 02/04/2008
Enterprise Agility | NetObjectives: SIPOC helps you figure out where to start
Some very good basic advice here from Jim Trott at NetObjectives about applying lean principles and...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 01/30/2008
Free Training - Creating Performance Dashboards!
Just heard about a series of free training events on creating performance dashboards. Looks pretty...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 01/17/2008
Discovering Pickle - Updated
With a name like Pickle, the options for joke-making can be overwhelming. :-) That aside, this is a...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 01/16/2008
steelcase blog: Docs for Changeā¦, The Tao of OBA and S+S
Saw this today. Mark Greiner, who runs Steelcase's "Workspace Futures" team spoke at a...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 01/15/2008
Popfly Video Tutorial - LOL
Daryll McDade knows I'm a big fan of Popfly, so he sent me over to see recently released Popfly...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 01/14/2008
Coskata Ethanol breakthrough announced at Detroit International Autos Show, Partnership with GM
Rick Wagoner, Chairman of General Motors, announced at the Detroit North American International Auto...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 01/13/2008
High quality music streaming over the Internet to your car stereo
You may have heard that Ford SYNC (based on Microsoft's Windows Automotive) will play music from...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 01/10/2008
Welcoming one of the best to the blogging world
Ben Flock just posted his first blog post, and I want to be among the first to say welcome to the...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 01/09/2008
What is the value of .NET 3.5 vs. .NET 2.0? Well, that depends on you...
Occasionally someone will say to me something along the lines of: "I've got an old VB6 app that I...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 01/09/2008
Miss your chance to see BillG keynote CES? See him keynote the Office Developers Conference 2008!
The Office Developers Conference (ODC) is coming up quick, starting 10-Feb-2008 in San Jose this...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 01/08/2008
Video: Ford Sync test | Crave : The gadget blog
Stumbled on another Ford Sync / Microsoft Windows Automotive video today -- this one a review from...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 01/07/2008
How to find good music; One audiophile's story
Harry Mower, a self-described music junkie, tells an addict's story of how to find the next great...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 01/07/2008
Media Mechanics : CNBC.com Hands Over Display Advertising to Microsoft
Not brand new, but noteworthy: paidContent reports that Microsoft adds CNBC.com to it's inventory of...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 01/07/2008
Ford SYNC - Beyond cool, it sells cars, too!
Regular readers of this blog know that I've been excited about Ford's SYNC for quite a while now....
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 01/02/2008
paidContent.org - Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire on Web Media: We Made Multiple Bets, and The Platform Side Won
For those interested in web video... Here's a good interview with Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Brightcove...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 12/19/2007
This is just Elf-tastic!
Once again, I've been inspired by Steve Clayton. Somehow I missed out on the elf thing last year....
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 12/15/2007
Seth's Blog: The Billion-Dollar T-Shirt
Ontological uncertainty exists when, even if you perfectly know and understand the environment...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 12/15/2007
Intellectual Arbitrage... from the George Costanza School of Management
Had the good fortune of meeting Frank Arrigo the other week down in Dallas for some training. Good...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 12/14/2007
Surface, Popfly, Photosynth, Silverlight, Windows Live Platform, and consumer value stream links
Was talking to some folks the other day about some of the cool stuff emerging from Microsoft, and...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 12/14/2007
Seadragon / Photosynth video
This is not exactly breaking news, as this video was presented at TED in March 2007, but the live...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 12/13/2007
Toyota Robot Video - playing violin and trumpet
Yesterday I posted here on Toyota's violin playing robot. Cool stuff. Here's a video...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 12/11/2007
Share the Robot Love! Toyota's violin playing bot and the GM FIRST Robot Challenge
I'm a fan of robots. As such, two things caught my attention recently -- one far from home and one...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 12/10/2007
Swarm intelligence is a way to augment - not replace - our humanity
Interesting post here on swarm intelligence, but there's a danger in applying this concept in a...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 11/24/2007
Enterprise Mashups = Service Oriented Reporting?
Josh Holmes posted here about the article on Enterprise Mashups he recently co-wrote with Larry...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 11/21/2007
Microsoft's Software + Services strategy in 10 minutes or less...
I got an email recently asking me to present Microsoft's Software + Services strategy at an internal...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 11/16/2007
Go ahead -- Rip my blog! (And web IM me, too)
That is, if you like my blog. I've added a couple new gadgets a little ways down the right hand...
Author: JohnMullinax Date: 11/16/2007