Archive for December, 2007

Actually, this is quite annoying

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Intuit recently issued an update for QuickBooks which, due to some fuckedupness deletes the entire desktop folder. That's pretty serious shit right there. RixStep, the whiner of the week, was caught by this bug but blames Apple. I'm not sure how "unsafe" code written by Intuit really qualifies as being ...

Catering for the Power User

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Rxstep takes issue with lackingareas of Mac OS X. The lack of an Advanced button and the lack of supported GUI theming. OS X has no advanced button. There's no way for professionals - for developers and admins - to get beyond the confines of the tilded user home area and ...

13/100 The Best Parts of Marketing

Monday, December 17th, 2007

marketing: the total of activities involved in the transfer of goods from the producer or seller to the consumer or buyer, including advertising, shipping, storing, and selling. To be honest, advertising is good fun. Putting an ad together and then seeing it in the flesh is fun. But other than that, ...

ERP! Pardon me!

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Sig writes about Business Process Software. This discussion came out of an alleged "Firestorm" about how enterprise software is "unsexy". It's not just about how business process software isn't glamourous because the subjects in enterprise software only excite a small subsection of people (I'm sure there's a niche for Business ...