Friday, June 21, 2002

ASP.NET without IIS. Christian Langreiter cites a fascinating article by Ted Neward entitled Hosting ASP.NET: Running an All-Managed HTTP Server: ... [Jon's Radio] 1:26:11 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Usability For Cars. TiVo for Your Car "37BetterMotors, designed by the fine Web craftsmen at 37signals, offers a new perspective on what automotive Web sites could be. 37BetterMotors could do for cars what TiVo did for television, turning car ownership or leasing into an activity, not the passive exercise it is currently." [kottke.org] An interesting exercise in usability, sorely needed. Check out their walkthrough for an illustration of how this system would work. [The Shifted Librarian] 1:19:44 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Business 101: Making the Virtual Real. Business 101: Making the Virtual Real You may have noticed that my blog output has been a little slow recently.  I've been dealing with making my consulting practice much more real.  Here's some of the steps I have taken: Teamed up with a partner.  Although we've been working together for a while, it's really come together in the past 2 weeks. Made the partnership solid and one that I think will not only work but work *very* well. Incorporated. Set up a business banking account. Setup a real address. Setup a voice mail system. Got business cards. All of this has been hugely time consuming -- hence the relative lack of blog entries -- but also very rewarding.  We both feel much better about the future.  In this essay I'm going to talk about #s 3-7.  Since there are so many of us working as consultants from home these days, I thought an essay about this was worth while.  Each of these topics are short -- but I think quite useful. ==> Read Story <== [The FuzzyBlog!] 1:18:52 PM    trackback []     Articulate []