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Saturday, July 20, 2002

July 19, 2002 No Revenue Crunch at Documentum By  Dennis Callaghan During a week in which most software companies were happy if revenues didn't fall too much, Documentum Inc. reported a 17 percent increase in second-quarter revenues over last year's, including a 26 percent increase in software license revenues. The enterprise content management software developer recorded revenues of $54 million for the quarter, up from $46.1 million in the same year-ago period. License revenues jumped from $21.4 to $27 million year-to-year. ... Despite the revenue gains, Documentum, of Pleasantville, Calif., still ended up with a slight net loss for the quarter, of $473,000. The company lost $14.1 million in the same period last year. More... 8:27:43 PM  Google It!  comment []   IM Me About This

Very Cool Article: Email Interface Design 101 Talk about serendipity.  As I go to the www.evolt.org site to unsubscribe from their mailing lists (I'm dumping all mailing lists for a while), I find this article: http://www.evolt.org/article/Email_Interface_Design_101/4090/32613/index.html And, what have I been coding all day?  A natural language parser for treating emails sent to a common address like todo@ yourdomain.com as task list items -- but inferring properties like Priority, Status, Project, Categories, Who to Assign them to, etc.  Serendipity in action.  It's all database driven a pretty cool piece of code that knows that "Paolo" = www.evectors.com = IdeaTools and that tasks from Paolo have a higher priority than tasks from other sources, etc.  More details as it gets more features and such. 5:00:09 PM  Google It!  comment []   IM Me About This

Enlightenment: Talk About a Beautiful GUI Wow.  I just ran across the development screen shots for the next release of the Enlightment *nix window manager.  Talk about beautiful.  I'm in awe:   4:53:46 PM  Google It!  comment []   IM Me About This

Dating Hackers Tutorial Too funny: http://neworder.box.sk/newsread.php?newsid=5364 Thanks to my buddy: for pointing this one out. 3:34:22 AM  Google It!  comment []   IM Me About This

Good Morning Europe!  Well it's Happy Late Evening (3 am) in Boston.  My solution to TWDFH (the work day from hell) is increasingly simple and powerful -- I just retreat to the metaphorical womb of my bed -- at about 8 pm.  And when you seemingly only ever sleep in 1 stretch between 4 to 6 hours then it means "Good Morning Europe".  My schedule which two weeks ago was on Italian time, made a brief return to Boston time, has now returned to Italian time.  And given that I head west to OSCON on Sunday at 6:40 pm from Logan (in case any other geeky bostonians are on that same flight), I wonder what time zone I'll be in next week.  Oh well.  Sigh.  But the single best part of getting up this early?  Damn few distractions.  I mean even the cats are asleep.  Which means it's a great time for cool code like a natural language parser for email subject lines.  And even my new Drupal theme is coming together. 2:57:37 AM  Google It!  comment []   IM Me About This