Ever had to write documentation for projects at work? The process can be tedious and fun at the same time. At least it is for me most of the time as the creative process lets you explore the best way to communicate a topic.
At the same time, its only as interesting as a person makes it, and the longer it takes the more boring it can become. That’s were I’m at getting the final tweaks finished on my latest document on mobile device configuration for one of our shipping departments.
The nifty parts of technical writing can be finally getting some standardization into the documents. You would be surprised at the differing levels of sophistication in the use of Microsoft Word! Some people still try to use spaces and tabs to fill empty space in their documents and forms! Ugh!
There are so many great features in Word that allow for the formatting that a person wants if they simply use the search feature in Help. Seriously, the help files have all the steps on using these features, and few people actually look it up. Instead they just hack it together and give up when it doesn’t work like they want it to.
So I’ve cleaned up several documents and forms for our Project Methodology, getting some standard formatting and features like file paths & versioning set up properly. Oh, well. On to more documentation!
Another good tool sees the light of day. While VMWare is superior, VPC is a great tool for running Windows VMs on Windows – performance is better, and the price is right.
This doesn’t look especially well for satellite radio. It’s something I’ve never really understood – why spend extra $$ on a radio subscription when there are dozens of terrestrial stations available. Now with HD radio, I’m really confused. Glad I didn
It’s going to be very interesting to see how well the new Windows Home Server comes through for end users. One very neat twist is the way Home Server is going to manage disk space.
No more drive letters for Home Server clients for one thing. The new system will dynamically manage the drive space that is made available to the server and it’s clients. That should make it very simple for end-users as they leverage the online storage and automated backup features of the new system.
With the Daylight Savings Time 2007 updates and a number of other projects, I’ve got a lot of SMS (that’s Systems Management Server) work to get through this week. There is some file permissions on our image, the monthly security patches, the DST updates, and a few others like Adobe 8 that need to go through testing.
While I like the aspect of having a management tool to do all the work, sometimes, SMS is a beast that needs to be beaten into submission.
Ah, now this’ll be a great feature for all WM6 based devices. The ability of a free Hotmail account to push mail directly to your device is a great feature. Now if they can retro-fit that back into WM5, I think everyone would be happy. After all, WM5 has had the ability to perform this service with Exchange email systems since it shipped.
At least your next WM phone will have the capability!
The Democrats running for Governor must have failed their math classes. The “high speed rail” boondoggle in California already cost the state taxpayers billions of dollars. The mess there shows that I saved the hard-working taxpayers in Wisconsin from a scam that would have cost
