by Thomas Otter | July 27, 2009 | Comments Off
photo via wikipedia. thanks! This weekend we did some camping, just across the border into France, and very close to part of Maginot Line. Next time I visit that area I’m going to take some time and actually visit a couple of Ouvrages, go inside and see the working railway and the logistics of the [...]
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Category: software industry Tags: maginot, maintenance, software
by Thomas Otter | July 24, 2009 | 1 Comment
Watch here if it doesn’t display. It is full of excellent nuggets. Obsess about your customers, not your competitors. Invent. Think long term. Be prepared to be misunderstood. I wonder how many other CEO’s could present their business principles in this precise yet genuine way? I believe the presentation was mainly aimed at the [...]
Category: CEO Law books history politics Tags: Amazon, Bezos, copyright., kindle
by Thomas Otter | July 2, 2009 | Comments Off
I’m convinced that too many user interfaces are trapped by tyrannies of table and text. I while ago about blogged about many enterprise software UIs being like Donuts. Via Steve Clayton this arrived in my feedreader this morning. It is goodness. Someone give this fellow some HR system UIs to work on.
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Category: UI usability visualization Tags: CV., UI, visualization
by Thomas Otter | July 1, 2009 | 3 Comments
St Petersburg has had several name changes in its 300 years or so of existence, being known as St Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad and then back to St Petersburg. Czars, revolutionaries, dictators and democrats have all left their mark on maps, signs, history books and now navigation systems throughout Russia and the former Soviet Union. In [...]
Category: history software industry Tags: history, naming conventions, software companies
