Partial Office UI

I promised that I would deliver the new Office UI that NStatic uses this morning. Unfortunately, I am currently redoing the icons on the ribbon, so you’ll have to wait another day or two. For now, I’ll give you a partial glimpse. Hopefully, you’ll get your hands on this release

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Read more » May 28, 2006, 7:23AM
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Software Built to Replace a Human

I just noticed this blog post on “software built to replace a human” referred to by someone in Joel’s forms. That’s the whole raison d’etre for my software company, SoftPerson — hence the name. Currently at work I'm writing some EDI (electronic data interchange) software that I know for a fact

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Read more » May 26, 2006, 8:42AM
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Functional Programming

In my quest to incorporate more declarative programming techniques (especially, from functional and logical programming) in my applications and eliminate all the cruft left behind from traditional imperative programming, I found a number of items on the web. There are some in the blogosphere that are newly converted to functional programming. Larry

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Read more » May 13, 2006, 2:39AM
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Wordprocessing

I can’t spend too much time on a problem, or I become bored and unproductive. Sometimes, I alleviate this tendency by frequently switching from development to testing mode. Periodically, I switch temporarily to some other long-term project of mine. I don’t engage in non-software recreational activities, since I am not

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Read more » May 11, 2006, 6:23PM
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Workspaces

Excel has a feature called “File/Save Workspaces…” which saves the layout of multiple spreadsheets, so that in the future one can load multiple spreadsheets at once in a preconfigured arrangement. (There’s also a similar feature “Views/Custom Views” which works within a single spreadsheet and preserves a number of view and

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Read more » May 4, 2006, 5:13PM
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