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My PM talk in SJTU
Finally, I delivered my first talk. Kind of excited, you can imagine. :-) PPT can be found @ http://cid-0c5963e0b1a0be5d.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/PM%20Talk.ppt Let me know what you think of it. Update 7/30/2009 This post has been moved to http://www.balionweb.com/my-pm-talk-in-sjtu.htm Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 12:44 AM by Bali | 10 Comments

If I were designing a new email service, I would…
All great designs come from deep understanding to customers. In my case, I'd like to design the email service for information workers(IW) as I am one of them. Basically they are hired to get things done. Modern projects, or tasks in smaller granularity, Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 11, 2009 7:49 PM by Bali | 1 Comments

#3, Hulu, Why?
Fast Company recently published its version of the world’s top 50 most innovative companies. Although I would question why Intel is among top10, what surprised me most is the fact that Hulu is listed #3. I know there might be political things about the Read More...

Posted Monday, February 23, 2009 4:10 PM by Bali | 1 Comments

P2P Backup System w/o SPOF for Work Group
This is also one of my half-completed ideas years ago. It was recalled recently by two stories: Stories #1 : One of my team mates lost his Outlook email archive due to a mistaken operation. He is very upset because all of his emails in past two years Read More...

Posted Sunday, February 15, 2009 11:23 PM by Bali | 2 Comments

Designing Your Own Recent Posts Widget for MSDN Blog
In my MSDN blog, I need “Recent Posts”, but I don’t need archive side bar. After having played with template for a while, still no luck. Hmmm, looks like I have to DIY it. Fortunately in News sidebar, you can fill in raw html including JavaScript . Then Read More...

Posted Saturday, February 07, 2009 9:42 PM by Bali | 1 Comments

Principles for Building Secure Database Applications in Action
What I am talking about in this post might be well known to many people(too simple, sometimes naive?), but often most basic things make a difference. OK, get down to business. Thumbs rules for DB security might be: Define your security boundary(or attack Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:10 PM by Bali | 2 Comments

An AD System to Pay Content Generators
Back to not too long ago, I had a half-completed advertising idea related to social shopping. Now I post it here to collect more feedbacks. I call it HappyDog. (Just a name, not related to that DogFood widely used within Microsoft J ) Problems As everybody Read More...

Posted Tuesday, January 20, 2009 11:21 PM by Bali | 1 Comments

Words from potential ex-customers
It is only customers who pay dollars as your revenue and enable your read this post comfortably at your office. Almost every company considers “Customer-oriented” as one of their key values although they can be expressed in various ways. It is “ Passion Read More...

Posted Tuesday, December 30, 2008 7:41 PM by Bali | 1 Comments

What Facebook means for the enterprise
It is Facebook’s heyday probably. Every tiny breath of Facebook will attract lots of discussion and review among major media and tech blog. It is successful to some extent if you don’t care its current sheet too much. But can we mirror Facebook’s popularity Read More...

Posted Wednesday, October 15, 2008 12:39 AM by Bali | 0 Comments

Design Flaws in Google Docs’ Collaborative Editing ?
Fact I observed this on August 30, 2008. One of highlighted features in Google Docs is its collaborative editing, which means different users can edit the same document simultaneously. But users should be careful in production scenarios. Here is what Read More...

Posted Friday, August 29, 2008 3:33 PM by Bali | 3 Comments

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