Microsoft is asking whether more reference applications are needed for WPF.
Tell them what you’d like to see!
I’d like them to try a LOB application – just to see how difficult it really can be — one that does some realistic data entry, not just a few text boxes in a modal dialog box.
And please, no more photo “anything” or RSS “anything.” :)
Ten tall tales told on resumes.
Have you caught people in lies on the résumés? I was interviewing a candidate for a documentation position years ago and while out at lunch she seemed to say things which contradicted some of the information on her printed résumé. Her tales of a “current” job and the reason she was seeking new employment didn’t quite feel right.
One call to the employer later by our HR department confirmed my suspicions. She did not have the skills nor role she was claiming. Plus, she had already left that job. Of course, she wasn’t hired.
I interviewed a guy once who had 4 or 5 years of time unaccounted for right in the middle of several other jobs. Thankfully, he had a good answer. He had decided to join the military and felt it wasn’t relevant to the current position, so he had removed it. (I suggested he put it back).
I see technical resumes which pad skills and knowledge far too often; programming language padding seem to be the most common on developer resumes. Just because your office neighbor has a book on the programming language Python shouldn’t give you reason to include it on your resume! :) I enjoy asking developers about these skills — making them sweat when they realize they shouldn’t have put a specific technology on their resume.
Have you padded your resume? Do you include every programming language technology that you’ve encountered, regardless of your level of experience/knowledge?
Do you still include “Microsoft Office”? :)
What’s the funniest thing you’ve encountered in interviews or on resumes?
Whenever I had the camera ready, she wouldn’t show up. Whenever I put it down, she’d fly up for a drink at her feeder.
The currant tomatoes didn’t move though … (it would have been freaky if they had!). The currants are my favorite tomato in the garden. We’ve got practical tomatoes, but these taste great and are fun to eat just like grapes!
Will the argument over Mac vs. Windows (or Linux) matter in 5 years?
Nova Spivack, founder of Twine, believes change is afoot. The desktop of the future is going to be a hosted web service he suggests.
I quickly read the post (it’s too long). It’s nothing you can’t find elsewhere in terms of ideas (nothing revolutionary). The part that is of interest to me is how he barely discusses the revenue model for this new platform. Right now, the desktop offers a clear model for consumers. I buy a notebook or desktop with the operating system of my preference, and optionally buy software (from applications to games). The second generation iPhone has demonstrated that people are willing to pay for good quality installable applications and not live entirely on “web applications.” The game industry is in the billions every year.
I have no disagreement with the concept or benefit of web applications. I honestly haven’t found many that I’m interested in using full time. Furthermore, I have found even fewer that I’d be willing to pay a subscription for. Can all vendors be supported by advertising alone? No, that’s not a sustainable path for every application. So, who pays for these applications? Do they have access to your private data (anonymously?) and resell it for marketing purposes (again, advertising, but behind the scenes). Eh, that might sustain a few more businesses.
Furthermore, and speaking from experience, integration of disparate applications (via web services or whatever), is far from a simple task. Not only is there a technical challenge of integrating from protocol perspective (standards often take too long to develop, and leave little in the way for creative-types to flourish), but there’s also the user experience of having multiple different (unique) applications.
Software as a service is going to be hot. There’s no doubt about it.
But, what about the enterprise? What about 99.999% uptime? Few (if any) web application vendors can really guarantee that type of uptime. What’s acceptable though may vary from business to business, but if you’re “web top OS” is down for 4 hours for your enterprise, how much revenue do you loose?
My prediction: there won’t be a winner in the webtop as he describes it. The market is too large for that. So, developers would be forced to choose a platform for their development. Sigh.
What web applications do you use today? I’m not talking about e-mail or RSS readers — something else. Do you use Google Docs for example? For work or home?
Interesting post from Gary Fong about designing a better suitcase, before others ….
Have you ever come up with something that you decided would be a great invention, but didn’t do for various reasons? What about software in particular? Ever had a software application in mind, yet either no time or talent (or resources) to develop it?
