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Chris Woodill: May 2009
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Diary of an IT Innovator. Friday, May 22, 2009. White House Data Feeds are Baby Steps. The White House announced to great fan fare that it would be releasing data feeds of its public information collected by hundreds of agencies within the US government. They have launched the first iteration of this service. Unfortunately, based on what has been launched, this vision is not really feasible. Here is what I can see from what is currently available:. The site provides data in a variety of formats such as...
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Chris Woodill: January 2009
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Diary of an IT Innovator. Thursday, January 15, 2009. Using Technology to Avoid Stealing Songs By Mistake. In 1960, The Chiffons published He's So Fine:. In 1970, George Harrison published the song My Sweet Lord:. In 1976, a lawsuit ended with Harrison having to pay over $500K in damages to the original song's publisher for subconsciously plagiarizing (ultimately, Harrison got the last laugh by ultimately buying the publisher). Just recently, Joe Satriani has taken Coldplay to court. Software development...
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Chris Woodill: April 2009
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Diary of an IT Innovator. Monday, April 20, 2009. Separating the Humans from the Robots. With a new Terminator movie coming out, I started thinking about the ways that on the Internet now we need to try and distinguish the humans from the robots. There is already a “war” going on out there between humans and sophisticated robots for control of Facebook, Hotmail, Gmail and other web 2.0 services. Google is experimenting with new techniques. Google is relying not just on individual results but collective ...
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Chris Woodill: February 2010
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Diary of an IT Innovator. Saturday, February 13, 2010. Zachman vs. TOGAF – Enterprise Architecting for Change. In the past several years, I have been working with the Zachman Framework. For classifying and organizing architecture artefacts. Zachman is quite popular as a framework in large enterprises such as governments, big banks, utilities, etc. because it is seen as a comprehensive way to manage the architecture process. . In the past year or so, I have been switching over to TOGAF. Along with the AD...
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Chris Woodill: November 2010
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Diary of an IT Innovator. Tuesday, November 23, 2010. Bug in Microsoft Project 2010 – Resource Usage. In Microsoft Project 2010, you can create a custom calendar to set your day as something different than the default 8 hours per day. In this example, I changed the working time to 7.5 hours per day. So far, no problem. However, look what happens when you view the Resource Usage Tab for the same task:. That’s not what I want - I said 7.5 hours per day is the working time! Monday, November 1, 2010. Leade...
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Chris Woodill: June 2009
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Diary of an IT Innovator. Sunday, June 28, 2009. I was on TheServerSide.NET. Which is one of the leading Microsoft .NET community sites and typed in “SharePoint”. The result I got was this:. I thought that was kind of amusing, so I tried a few other Microsoft product names:. Wednesday, June 17, 2009. What We Know About SharePoint 2010. Based on the various blog posts and articles, here is what we know from the publically available information on SharePoint 2010:. IE 60 will not be supported. Improved de...
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Chris Woodill: Bug in Microsoft Project 2010 – Resource Usage
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Diary of an IT Innovator. Tuesday, November 23, 2010. Bug in Microsoft Project 2010 – Resource Usage. In Microsoft Project 2010, you can create a custom calendar to set your day as something different than the default 8 hours per day. In this example, I changed the working time to 7.5 hours per day. So far, no problem. However, look what happens when you view the Resource Usage Tab for the same task:. That’s not what I want - I said 7.5 hours per day is the working time! So, similarly, if your definiti...
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Chris Woodill: The US Customs Rules have not Kept Up with the Realities of Global Knowledge Work
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Diary of an IT Innovator. Monday, September 20, 2010. The US Customs Rules have not Kept Up with the Realities of Global Knowledge Work. As a global consultant, I travel from time to time to the United States. When you go through customs, you are questioned to ensure that you are not “working” full-time in the United States without a green card or visa. . The basic rules for working in the United States when you interact with airport customs seem to be as follows:. You are allowed to go into the Unite...
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Chris Woodill: February 2009
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Diary of an IT Innovator. Wednesday, February 18, 2009. Proposed ISP Tax Shows Canadian Content Producers Do Not Understand the Internet. Decades ago in Canada, funds were created to encourage television production of Canadian Content. These programs were funded by the cable companies and regulated. These funds were created to share "Canadian Stories" in a sea of American television content that because of their inherent scale could be produced easier and cheaper. Society of Composers, SOCAN. In the tele...
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Chris Woodill: July 2009
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Diary of an IT Innovator. Tuesday, July 14, 2009. New Details on SharePoint 2010 from Microsoft. Microsoft has released a new site on SharePoint 2010. In the site, you will find information on SharePoint 2010 for developers and it professionals. There are some interesting announcements in video format here that are worth exploring. In the developer video, they show SharePoint integration into Visual Studio 2010. There are a few new bits in here:. Manifest editing tools in Visual Studio. The operating ...
