Wayne Allen's Blog

From Patrick Cauldwell's Blog - Firefox and Sharepoint Being a dedicated Firefox user, one of the few things that was still thwarting me was SharePoint.  We use SharePoint internally for a ton of stuff, and it was a drag to have to fall back to th… more »

Having recently been involved with a team that was being exhorted to "step up" and "go the extra mile" I noticed a range of responses from "lets go" to "why bother" to "I don't think so". After thinking about the response I identified several personal fa… more »

I was talking with Scott Hanselman (gratuitous name drop) about the difference between rpc and document style. It took me a moment since I don't deal with SOAP internals much any more. It occurred to me shortly thereafter that I don't really care other t… more »

Ask E.T. had a pointer to Dotplot. An entire software module of a telecommunications switch about two million lines of C. Seems to be some interesting visualization here. I'll have to keep this one in the memory banks for future use. more »

Saw this on StickyMinds today: Bumper Stickers for Testers My favorites: Software Testers: "Depraved minds...Usefully employed." Software Testers: We break it because we care. A good tester has the heart of a developer...in a jar on the desk. Friends d… more »

Via Clarke Ching In early 2003 Michael Crichton gave a fascinating Caltech Michelin Lecture titled  Aliens Cause Global Warming. He argued that a lot of today’s science is bad science and that bad science is often used to back up good… more »

I went to see The Incredibles (great film by the way) the other day at a theater I hadn’t been in before and I was struck by the difference as soon as I walked in the door. You buy your tickets the normal way (or online), but the snack bar has been… more »

From Scott Hanselman Here's a great little free util that Omar has found. I used to move the plugin's manually to speed things up, but PDF Speedup makes me NOT DREAD opening a PDF anymore. BTW, does Acrobat 6 suck LOTS more than Acrobat 5? I HATE the n… more »

Welcome to the Consultants Guild blog. For those unfamiliar with the Consultants Guild check out our home page. more »