Posts for May, 2008

May 28, 2008

MS Office To Support ODF

MS Office 2007 will have native support for ODF, meaning much more and beyond the import and export facilities. Microsoft’s OOXML has been already accepted has a standard, so this announcement seemed a little out of place, especially because ODF and PDF get support from Office before OOXML does. It is definitely good from an interoperability perspective, and it is commendable that Microsoft has started to think of path towards its interoperability promise. [Continue]

May 22, 2008

Theory Of Constraints And Change

For quite some time I have been trying to digest and slowly apply Theory Of Constraints in what I do. Like Jack Vinson says, Necessary But Not Sufficient is a great book to get encouraged about it. I too was drawn in by the same book. [Continue]

May 19, 2008

Benefits Of Online Repositories

I ended up on a Windows machine for a couple of days, my Linux machine was inaccessible. I was using a Windows machine after a gap of about an year or so. My usage was limited to only testing on Windows specific applications. [Continue]

May 11, 2008

Task Management Using vim

Task management is a sensitive issue. Even the ones who do not explicitly manage tasks are defensive about how they do it. I was one of them for quite some time, till I realized that it was not working anymore. [Continue]

May 7, 2008

Back To The Future

A college decides to build a web site. The full web site involves offering multiple services. A part of the team has had horrible experiences with downtimes because of too many database calls. [Continue]

May 2, 2008

vim As A Personal Wiki

vim is an extremely flexible and versatile editor and is one of those tools which have a cult-like following. Typically these tools are liked a lot by these followers and hated by others. So, this post is for those who like to use, or who are open to trying out, vim. [Continue]