10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:
1. Pushing Operating System Limits
Raymond Chen notes that if you have to ask where the operating system limits are, you're probably doing something wrong:
If you're nesting windows more than 50 levels deep or nesting menus more than 25 levels deep or creating a dialog box with more than 65535 controls, or nesting tree-view items more than 255 levels deep, then your user interface design is in serious need of rethought, because you just created a usability nightmare.
More @ CodingHorror
Raymond Chen notes that if you have to ask where the operating system limits are, you're probably doing something wrong:
If you're nesting windows more than 50 levels deep or nesting menus more than 25 levels deep or creating a dialog box with more than 65535 controls, or nesting tree-view items more than 255 levels deep, then your user interface design is in serious need of rethought, because you just created a usability nightmare.
More @ CodingHorror
2. Explaining the Excel Bug
By now you've probably seen a lot of the brouhaha over a bug in the newest version of Excel, 2007. Basically, multiplying 77.1*850, which should give you 65,535, was actually displaying 100,000.
More @ JoelOnSoftwareBy now you've probably seen a lot of the brouhaha over a bug in the newest version of Excel, 2007. Basically, multiplying 77.1*850, which should give you 65,535, was actually displaying 100,000.
3. Read every bit on a DVDMore @ HackADay
4. Compete.com Analyzes How Facebook Users Spend Their Time
There was a great post a couple of weeks ago on the compete.com blog about how Facebook users spend their time. It's all summed up in a nifty graphic to boot. This is a great information visualization, packing in lots of useful information. Not unsurprisingly, people spend most of their time browsing profiles, but using applications is getting up there in terms of number of users, and the time spent is almost as long.
5. Internet Explorer 8.0: The silence is deafening
How far along is Microsoft with the next version of Internet Explorer (IE) — which might be IE 7.5 or IE 8.0, depending on what Microsoft decided to do since last time we heard anything truly tangible from the IE team (which was about a year ago)?
More @ ZDNETBlogs
How far along is Microsoft with the next version of Internet Explorer (IE) — which might be IE 7.5 or IE 8.0, depending on what Microsoft decided to do since last time we heard anything truly tangible from the IE team (which was about a year ago)?
More @ ZDNETBlogs
6.Got a blog? Help a student.
When it comes to philanthropy, everyone’s got something different to give – some people have money, others have time, and bloggers have devoted readers. The creative folks at DonorsChoose have a few ideas about how bloggers can help students and teachers.
More @ Googleblog
When it comes to philanthropy, everyone’s got something different to give – some people have money, others have time, and bloggers have devoted readers. The creative folks at DonorsChoose have a few ideas about how bloggers can help students and teachers.
More @ Googleblog
7.Wii Japan sales overwhelm PS3More @ Reuters
8.Windows vs Linux: Architecture, part II
After a boring and dry customary introduction in the previous part of the article, Windows vs Linux: Architecture, part I, I went on to describe problems with Windows system accounts, kernel architectures, system security, and both kernel and user modes. Welcome to the second part of the article. If I’m counting correctly, it is time for the fifth chapter, namely:
More @ PolishLinux
After a boring and dry customary introduction in the previous part of the article, Windows vs Linux: Architecture, part I, I went on to describe problems with Windows system accounts, kernel architectures, system security, and both kernel and user modes. Welcome to the second part of the article. If I’m counting correctly, it is time for the fifth chapter, namely:
More @ PolishLinux
9.Can Microsoft Office Withstand the Onslaught of the Freebies?
OpenOffice and Symphony are compatible with the Open Document Format, an industry standard that allows programs from different developers to read each other's documents and preserve typefaces, paragraphs, indents, tabs, bullets, numbering and so forth. Both free suites also support the proprietary but widely copied formats that Microsoft used in its basic Office products until the 2007 version.
More @ LinuxInsider
OpenOffice and Symphony are compatible with the Open Document Format, an industry standard that allows programs from different developers to read each other's documents and preserve typefaces, paragraphs, indents, tabs, bullets, numbering and so forth. Both free suites also support the proprietary but widely copied formats that Microsoft used in its basic Office products until the 2007 version.
More @ LinuxInsider
10.Redefine Yourself!
Unless You Change Your Self-Portrait, Your Life Will Never Change!
More @ BoSanchez
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