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May 2007 - Posts

The spiral of complexity and feature creep - New Yorker article

James Surowiecki has written a nice article Feature Presentation about why companies build complexity into their products and more importantly to you--why you buy into it. People want all the bells and whistles but overestimate their ability to use all Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 29, 2007 10:23 AM by Clint Covington | 3 Comments
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Driving good profits through design and customer feedback

Culture of Design In the last three years, I have seen Microsoft’s design culture shift to tackle hairy design challenges that are rooted in legacy tradition. Business Week recently acknowledged the positive changes at Microsoft in the article, The Soul Read More...
Posted Monday, May 28, 2007 6:48 AM by Clint Covington | 1 Comments
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Silverlight resources post by ScottGu

Scott Guthrie has a truly great post on Silverlight . You should be able to find anything you need to start ramping up--very cool, innovative technology! As a developer, it is definitely worth your time to get educated on the possiblities. Read More...
Posted Monday, May 21, 2007 10:15 PM by Clint Covington | 0 Comments

Design inspiration resources

The folks at web design from scratch have recently posted a list of their 10 favorite web site designs . The sites make up good sources of inspiration. I particularly like the IconBuffet . For about $300 you can get a great set of icons that will make Read More...
Posted Monday, May 21, 2007 9:01 PM by Clint Covington | 2 Comments
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Hot fixes for three Access 2007 issues

I noticed the Access Junkie just posted a few links to KB articles that describe hot fixes for some blocking issues. Here are the highlights (or um, low lights): ADP Perf When you try to run a Microsoft Access project (.adp) in Access 2007, the project Read More...
Posted Monday, May 21, 2007 8:40 PM by Clint Covington | 18 Comments
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Hold the runtime download page

Quick update on the runtime ship date--the test team found a recall class bug in setup that will cause us to slip the schedule by a couple weeks. I will let you know if I hear anything different. Sorry for the delay. Read More...
Posted Monday, May 14, 2007 9:23 PM by Clint Covington | 24 Comments
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Resume best practices revealed

Over the past 6 months, I reviewed an overwhelming number of resumes from jobseekers interested in joining my team. After a exhaustive search, we’re excited to have found a great fit for the team – Ryan from M7 Database. During the process of identifying Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 12, 2007 10:01 PM by Clint Covington | 1 Comments
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Security Considerations and Guidance for Access 2007 - MSDN article

There is a new article by Access MVP Garry Robinson. "Find out how you can use Access 2007 to protect the information in your databases. Learn about encrypting files, administering passwords, converting databases to the new ACCDB and ACCDE formats, and Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 12, 2007 7:06 AM by Clint Covington | 1 Comments
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The runtime will ship May 15th

I just heard from Erik that the runtime will ship as a free download on May 15th! I will post a URL to the download page when it is available. Enjoy! Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 11:16 AM by Clint Covington | 6 Comments
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Microsoft shows new database technology at MIX - Information Week article

Interesting article that speculates about a potential "SQL Server Live" offering from Microsoft. "In a session called "Accessing Data Services in the Cloud," Microsoft announced a programming model and related hosted service referred to as Project Astoria. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 8:59 AM by Clint Covington | 1 Comments
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