If you are given a hard time, because a project is late, there's now a good example to point to and say "well, it could be a lot worse".
The German TollCollect consortium that is contracted by the German government to build and operate a GSM/GPS based system to collect a country-wide, per-kilometer road use toll from trucks is currently caught right in the middle of one of the most publicized, most political and most costly IT project...
The Electric Doc’s blog is a fantastic example for someone leveraging the localization support I put into dasBlog to the maximum extent. Except for the headline and the occasional English term in the posts I don’t understand a single thing over there, but that’s the whole point of full localization, right?
If the browser’s primary language is set to Japanese, even the navigation...
"I'd like to bring you in for a review/training/coaching, but I guess you guys are too expensive" is something that I hear quite often when conference attendees approach me after a speech and ask me for assistance with problems they have. In fact, we likely aren't. We know the circumstances in quite a few markets in the EMEA region very well and know about the budget constraints of small and mid-size software companies. Don't make a guess, ask.
So today was apparently the start of Dave Winer's BloggerCon. What a great idea. Put people who share an addicition to personal, chronological, hyperlinked content management and publishing into a room and let them chat about it. They even have a QuickTime live webcast. I watched that a little. BloggerCon redfines "relevant". Wow, I am so glad that I didn't go.
The reunited Germany celebrates its 13th birthday today - national holiday. Happy birthday to us, happy birthday to us, happy ...
But in all reality, German national holidays aren't days of great fanfare, parades and fireworks displays across the country. Germany is a country without any significant display or even sense of national pride and patriotism, except, maybe when it the national football (I mean the football that's played with the foot, get it?) team is...