Is Your Service Plan about to Expire?Your service plan gives you free upgrades for Big Medium. Be sure that you're up-to-date before your plan expires, and find out details about how to renew.
ControlledYour faithful correspondent fell under the browbeating eye of authority on a few recent and essentially trivial occasions, making me think a bit about the effects of control, rule enforcement and tone in my own work.
Paper Cup? Five Bucks, PleaseWhen behind-the-scenes systems replace common sense and customer expectations. A parable at the coffee stand.
Promises, Problems and Product DevelopmentAs you build a product or service, identify the important features that are
not being requested.
Don't Fence Me In: Good Neighbors and Good Software DecisionsThe adage “good fences make good neighbors” is only occasionally true in collaborative software.
Understanding the PianoUser communities own and define technologies as much or more than the inventors. A piano from 1817 is the perfect example.