Continuous Learning

Eric Sink makes a good point about why Microsoft people care about others thinking of them as innovators - Microsoft wants to be admired. Well, who doesn’t? Wanting to be admired is one of the fundamental human behaviors. “Vanity is my favorite sin,” says Al Pacino in Devil’s Advocate

However, it is interesting that there is such a gap in the perceptions. Is this all just vanity, or is there something more to it?

To that I think Don Dodge hits right on the point - innovation is an overloaded word. On Wikipedia, innovation means:

Innovation is typically understood as the introduction of something new and useful, for example introducing new methods, techniques, or practices or new or altered products and services.

The article goes on to say: Keep reading →

John Chow provided a list of his top 10 WP plugins - this is an excellent list of plugins for me to extend my WP installation capabilities.

Sidebar Widget

This is what I envisioned WP would be; i.e. AJAX capable, drag/drop enabled of different widgets. However, plugin != widget and requires a lot more effort to configure. The sidebar widget is great for that. One problem though - it requires widget-compatible themes. My originally chosen theme (ocadia) is not widget-compatible, and I was unable to make use of the sidebar widget until I’ve switched back to kubrick. And that means I lost other customizations until I bring it back. Keep reading →