Posted on August 30th, 2006 by Carel
Filed under Apple, SAP, Technology
With Ruby on Rails (RoR) it is possible to develop a blogging engine in 15 minutes. Watch this 15 minute video demo-ing RoR. The Ruby language was developed by Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz) in 1994. According to Matz:
“Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text [...]
Posted on August 25th, 2006 by Carel
Filed under Apple, Business, Technology
In an earlier post I mentioned Google Spreadsheets. I decided to use this web app for a fairly detailed spreadsheet recently. My initial comments are:
The good…
The web-app is fairly responsive and you can easily and quickly update a spreadsheet. Navigation within a spreadsheet is fairly snappy.
Smaller spreadsheets load quickly from the Google site. Smaller spreadsheets [...]
Posted on August 17th, 2006 by Carel
Filed under Business, Technology
I received my writely.com login today. Writely is an online word processor. You can also collaborate online and export to MS-Word, pdf, OpenOffice, etc. It is still in beta and doesn’t support Safari. Not a problem I also use Firefox. Have a look — it is almost viable. I also mentioned Google Spreadsheets previously. These [...]
Posted on August 14th, 2006 by Carel
Filed under Leadership, Technology
I live in Atlanta and every October Atlanta hosts the Catalyst Conference for young leaders. The conference was birthed by John Maxwell the Leadership Guru and this is it’s sixth year. The keynote speakers include: Andy Stanley, Marcus Buckingham (First, Break all the rules fame) and Donald Miller (author of Blue Like Jazz). Very worth [...]
Posted on August 10th, 2006 by Carel
Filed under Business, HCM, Leadership
There are numerous personality profiling systems in use today, e.g., Myers-Briggs, DISC, etc. How about one that profile your personality based on a color system. Yes, colors. The system is called the Dewey Color System.
From the publisher: In 1981, Sadka began experimenting with color as a means of better understanding people’s personalities. Today, his Dewey [...]
Posted on August 8th, 2006 by Carel
Filed under Apple, Technology
This week Apple announced a lot of great products at WWDC in San Francisco during Steve Job’s keynote. The one product that impressed me the most is a feature called “Time Machine”. Time Machine will be part of the upcoming Leopard OSX release. It provides full automatic backups and phenomenal and very intuitive recovery of [...]
Posted on August 5th, 2006 by Carel
Filed under Blogging, Technology
I recently started to research what the hype is around Web2.0. Well, I think it is more than just hype. So far I believe that Web2.0 is about web services, better and quicker development tools and the most important aspect, better user interaction via browsers — no more page flashes and slow updates. Another aspect [...]
Posted on August 5th, 2006 by Carel
Filed under Apple, Business, Technology
OK, another entry for the day. Do you ever have the need to have access to your desktop, but you only have your web-enabled phone with you. Well, now you can. Have a look at: www.soonr.com. They support both Windows and Mac — great!
The best part is you can use Skype on your cellphone!!! [...]
Posted on August 4th, 2006 by Carel
Filed under Business, Entrepreneurship
I started by reading the “The Art of the Start” by Guy Kawasaki. I am a bit of an Apple fanatic, and this 2005 Stanford commencement speech by Steve Jobs is very inspiring — it is short. Take the time to read it.
