This looks interesting: We’re calling it Dabble, with emphasis on the Db: it’s a database system for dabblers. We’d naturally be happy if professional developers, DBAs, and business analysts find our system useful, but we won’t be satisfied until we have something that works for everyone in the millions of small businesses and teams for…
I tell you, working for a larger organization, supporting 10 times the number of users I used to support and supporting a wider variety of tools, sure keeps you on your toes. This week I spent time battling a spyware infection, troubleshooting Word macros, Excel formulas, PowerPoint graphics, Outlook options, printer connections, and Acrobat Reader…
As I told you last week, at my new job I’ve been completely consumed with the roll out of a new document management system that occurred at the same time that I started. Folks are still getting used to the new system, and still have tons of questions, which definitely keeps all of us in…
Not only was today my first day at the new job, but it was also rollout day for a new document management system firm-wide. Yes, over 300 people had to deal with coming into the office and having to work in a different environment than the one they left Friday. That meant a whole lot…
While still trying to keep a bit of mystery about where I currently work, and where I’m going to be working, there are a few things that I find very interesting about my upcoming job-switch that I want to share and discuss. Mostly, I’m interested in how much of my experience can be extrapolated out…
I got pretty involved in putting some of the final touches on our Intranet site before I open it up to a couple of folks to beta test next week, and didn’t quite get around to posting this earlier. This is about what I see as the real purpose of this project. Yes, I think…