November 2004 Entries
My boss asked me today what blog stood for :) I explained the concept, how they helped increase the speed of knowledge and how it was an opportunity to help bring more attention to ParaPlan and EnGraph. He didn't really believe me until I told him that 23% of all external links to our website in 2004 are from my blog...his ears perked up a bit and said "Well, you bloggers keep blogging away!"...
We released our first production ClickOnce application a couple days ago...of course it will remain a beta version until MS releases vs 2005. I was a little concerned that we weren't allowed to release production software yet, but I checked with our ISV Buddy, and he told us as long as our clients were aware that it is beta, we could go ahead with it. So far, one client is using it on four computers. Everything seems to be working well. We done a lot of testing to make sure it runs on different configurations....
Lately Jeff has been talking about ESS. Here is a way that it could help us. We could use it as a means to let our clients know where we are and how we can be reached. We could have an ESS feed that would contain our appointments and future trips. We could then build an aggregater into our applications and our clients could click a link that would say "Where's Tim" or "Where's Kyle" and it would let them know and what number to call to contact us. I posted earlier that some our clients don't always...