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December 2005 - Posts

Why the new UI?
Jensen Harris spoke at the BayCHI monthly program at PARC on December 14 th . Rashmi Sinha blogged about the event and included a link to Jensen’s slides . The 70 slides provide a nice overview about the reasons that a new Office UI is necessary. Read More...
Excel 2002/2003 Add-in for SQL Server Analysis Services
Check out Marco Russo , Teo Lachev , and Chris Webb’s posts regarding the newly available Excel Add-in 1.5 for Analysis Services which has been updated to support AS2005. Ted, in particular, had some thoughts that triggered further thoughts in me. Read More...
if(b1[i]!=b2[2]) turnHairGray=true;
Any little bugs drive you nuts lately? I met up with one yesterday. It involved one tiny, seemingly harmless section of code that was comparing bytes in two byte arrays. I had just finished completing a series of changes due to a significant change in Read More...
Challenge? Not really.
I read the Challenging Microsoft Office piece with the usual curiosity I have about what people think about MS Office alternatives. Anyway, the thing that jumped out at me about this story was a huge weakness/drawback that the author hinted at but didn’t Read More...
New OfficeZealot.com Zone
I’ve always felt that MS Office, particularly Excel, has been underutilized and/or misunderstood as a business intelligence tool. Consequently, reading about all of the business intelligence features in Office 12 is music to my ears. While there Read More...
Joining the merry ol' land of OZ
Charles left some huge shoes to fill when he left the merry ol’ land of OZ for a position with Microsoft - so big it will probably take a few of us to fill ‘em. When I heard that Charles was signing on with MSFT, I immediately approached Chris Read More...