I started optimizing some of my photos taken in the last trips and uploading them to TrekEarth. One photo per 24h upload ratio..!

My Photo Gallery

Posted by Cedric at 8/29/2005 12:49:00 AM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

Spend three weeks travelling in Iceland in June '05. The photo shows me standing around 2 meters in front of the Skógáfoss waterfall. That was an overwhelming moment - looking up and feeling the power of the water falling down (and getting wet ;-) Photo shot and edited by Adrian - see more pictures on TrekEarth. Click on the picture for full size view.

Posted by Cedric at 8/21/2005 11:38:00 PM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

The idea is simple – make a document that is in writing in Microsoft Word instantly available over the Internet. This is done by extending Word with a Web Server, that on request from the Browser serves the open document as HTML (without manually saving and publishing it).

Had a discussion with friends about hiring tasks for software engineers to evaluate their skills - let them code a multi-threaded Web Server before talking to them was a proven way. I asked myself the question - what happen when a Product Manager tries to code a Web Server? The result of the experiment can be tested here.

Adding a Web Server into Microsoft Word (the tool Product Managers spend most time with) is close to insane, but - I admit - was fun coding and might even be useful somehow (although I'm yet struggling to put it in words..)

The name "WordCasting" is just one more in the list of hype “casting-everything” - lead by Podcasting.

Download the prove-of-concept document here.

Tested on WinXP SP2 with Word 2003 and local Browser.

Enjoy

Posted by Cedric at 8/21/2005 07:10:00 PM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post