Curt Doolittle

Category: AI, Computation, and Technology

  • OVERSING UPDATE (revised) DONE : Main UI / Login / Authentication Registration M

    OVERSING UPDATE (revised)

    DONE :

    Main UI / Login / Authentication

    Registration

    Multi-currency (everywhere)

    Multi-language and Translation (everything)

    Permissions (ACL)

    Chron System

    Organizational Design and publishing

    Workflow engine and designer.

    Logging and history service

    Notification System

    Users (employees)

    Peer 360 System (likability)

    Roles/Pricing/Rate System

    Skill System (with weights, and value-to-business-weights)

    Skill Search System

    Disciplines

    Customers

    Contacts

    Net Promoter Score System

    Contracts/terms

    Allocations

    Projects

    Project Accounts

    Project Management UI

    Task UI

    Work Object System (WBS, Agile, Kanban, Jobs, Tickets, Sales, Revenue, Career and Recruiting projects )

    Agile Boards, searching and tagging and planning.

    Agile State Management

    Gantt Panel

    Resourcing Panels

    Delivery Management UI (cross organization resource management)

    ON DECK

    Ideas

    Requirements

    Briefs (Jobs)

    Test Cases

    Project Templates

    Estimating Game (triangulation and poker)

    Estimate approval system

    Time, Calendar, ‘Market’ System

    Timesheet approval system

    Expenses and Adjustments

    NEXT

    Rule System (rules to apply to outputs)

    Calendaring System / Accounting periods

    Billing (charging the client’s account)

    –Note: we separate the record of work (charging the project) actually done by the employee from what is billed the client (charging the client’s account) to make leakage visible.–

    Posting: (Oversing is a Journal/Ledger system after all)

    Invoicing: allocating, authorizing and printing invoices.

    Receipt/Payment/Reconciliation: reconciling payments, and apply.

    Export (to financial package)

    Import (from financial package and apply)

    API (integrate with financial package)

    CLOSING

    My Work

    Transparency System (must wait till last)

    Dashboards

    Reports (Profitability, utilization, charge-ability)

    Licensing System

    Upgrade/Update System

    Skinning UI (tuning it again)

    Help Text

    German and French Translations (Russian and English)

    Performance Optimization

    ADDITIONAL MODULES (2014 Q2)

    Career Management (positions, salary levels, MBO’s, reviews,budget etc) + Morale Events,

    Recruiting Management (estimating, planning,sourcing etc)

    Sales Management (budgeting, targeting, working, pitching, etc)

    Commission Management (extremely awesome!)

    Media Planning

    Lead Generation

    Status Reporting System.

    “Who Supports Me” System (integrator reference)

    Exchange, Gmail, Active Directory Integration

    Document Server (more sophisticated storage)

    Federation (multi site roll up)

    EXTENDING OUR OFFERING

    SAS Infrastructure and Offering.

    Inventory and Products System.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-21 18:14:00 UTC

  • DOOLITTLE’S FACEBOOK MARKDOWN LANGUAGE Use the HIGHLIGHT flag for THOUGHT pieces

    DOOLITTLE’S FACEBOOK MARKDOWN LANGUAGE

    Use the HIGHLIGHT flag for THOUGHT pieces, and for silly stuff – don’t.

    USE ALL CAPS FOR TITLES

    (lower case parenthesis for tags)

    _Underscore For Book Titles_

    “Quotes For Article Titles”

    RE:”…for quoting comments…”

    —For block quotes—

    **for emphasis of an idea in a sentence**

    And INLINE ALL CAPS for key TERMS that can be visually scanned.

    And use … when you’ve cut from a quote,

    And [when you] have replaced words in a quote for clarity.

    STYLE

    My preference is for Oxford commas because my long sentences require clarity, so “a, b, and c” is preferable to a, b and c.

    There is a big difference between comma , semicolon ; and period.

    Your vocabulary should suit your audience. But that requires a lot of verbose, and imprecise language that is very easy to misinterpret.

    NOTE TO SELF: OPEN PERSONAL ISSUES IN WRITING

    (I am generally trying to convey a different causal sequence or emphasis on causal properties than we do in normal language. It is this articulation of causal dimensions that people find illuminating in my work. But it makes for very long sentences. I’ve found that over time, just through repetition I can usually simplify it down. And then when I use that chain of causes, repeatedly, people begin to grasp it fairly easily, with the same repetition. Hayek is very, very good at this problem and I struggle to emulate him whenever possible. There is a certain verbal tempo to his work, and that tempo facilitates articulating multiple causal axis while retaining comprehensibility. My short term memory is not as good as his was, and I do not necessarily think in words in the first place, so it is harder for me to construct sentences as well, but I work at it. )

    (My vocabulary, despite all my work at it, still scores as largely academic. But honestly I can’t take it down any further. I have to work on sentence structure and the organization of concepts instead. And that seems to be working if I just keep at it.)

    (Unfortunately, again, my programming history is a little closer to how I think, and reinforced my thinking, and was terribly damaging to my writing, which is a blend of spoken word and programmatic argument. So I tend to use periods, not as verbal cues, but as “end-concept” markers. And I should use more semicolons, and more periods, and shorter sentences. And I’m having a problem breaking those tendencies. Partly because I type at something like 100wpm, and don’t think about it. )

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-20 10:24:00 UTC

  • TECH FASCISM – INCREMENTALISM IN ACTION First an option. Then mandatory. There i

    http://www.myfoxny.com/Story/23684342/microsofts-phone-update-to-feature-driving-modeMORE TECH FASCISM – INCREMENTALISM IN ACTION

    First an option. Then mandatory.

    There is NO REASON FOR THIS FEATURE.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-14 14:08:00 UTC

  • Another reason to hate MSFT…. I just bought a brand new, Acer, Windows 8 lapto

    Another reason to hate MSFT…. I just bought a brand new, Acer, Windows 8 laptop. The box text, and the manuals are in English and in Russian. But you can’t install English in addition to Russian. You can use an english keyboard. But they blocked the auto update service from adding English.

    Very nice. Although the irony is, that if any nation of people on earth can hack language packs it’s the russians…. I mean, the average admin chick can hack windows here. It’s just cultural knowledge. So the only people end up penalizing is people like me who speak english but want to buy windows internationally.

    So what do I do? I go to a russian language site and download the hack. Just like every other person here does.

    And they wonder why we hate them….. It’ s not random.

    They deserve it.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-14 10:31:00 UTC

  • OVERSING UPDATE Not sure this is the right place for status updates to friends o

    OVERSING UPDATE

    Not sure this is the right place for status updates to friends on the status of our product development. I generally write these long emails and send them out directly. But now that we’re farther along I think it might be fun to share.

    Permissions

    The guys checked in the permissions service today. We used the ACL list solution, which means that your permissions are just a list of strings, and we just check that array to see if you can do one thing or another. Groups get assigned permissions and people get assigned to groups. And people can belong to multiple groups, so as long as one of the groups you belong to can do something, you can do it. This allows us to construct permissions for any organizational structure and set of duties that any client has. Pretty simple user interface. Not grand. Not innovative. Just well organized.

    Agile Boards

    Well, it has taken a long time to go from farmers, to militarily structured industrial organizations, to socialist organizations, to lean organizations (kicking out useless middle management) to entrepreneurial organizations, to family-unit organizations consisting of no more than 150 people, to adopting the Kanban process of japan into western businesses, so that people actually work as teams rather than cogs and wheels. But it’s becoming increasingly popular to adopt the team model and some form of agile in all aspects of business.

    The Board rather than list management technique is showing up everywhere. Everywhere from list to project to document to team management. And it’s exceptional because it’s collaborative.

    Now, our software doesn’t distinguish between WBS (Gantt) style projects and agile projects. It’s all just task objects underneath. So you can view any project as you see fit – Gantt or Cards or queues or jobs or any combination. This is important because while internal shops are trying to efficiently maintain a burn with a fixed resource base, most large agencies and consulting firms are managing to a budget and delivery date. So we keep the time and dependency relationship all the time. It’s just up to the team whether they use it or not, and in what context they use it.

    So, the agile boards are coming together right now. We’re sort of conflicted between the requirements of being able to use this on a touch screen like an iPad and the density of information we want on a large screen but we think we have that solved. User testing will tell us whether we’re right or not.

    OK

    That’s enough for today.

    Cheers

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-10 11:20:00 UTC

  • (work) DESIGN I did, today, in between manic postings, manage to write the first

    (work) DESIGN

    I did, today, in between manic postings, manage to write the first draft of the design spec for that damned set of features I have been avoiding since last week.

    I can’t figure out how to gamify it. I will. I just haven’t done it yet. But at least it’s there.

    Bringing libertarian business philosophy into software is …. not all that easy.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-08 11:49:00 UTC

  • Is it just me, or did Microsoft taint the Metro style UI so badly that it’s dead

    Is it just me, or did Microsoft taint the Metro style UI so badly that it’s dead?

    I realize that flatness is fashionable (as resolution increases it’s only natural). But the metro UI, at least to me, reads as synonym for failure.

    I’m overly sensitive to this stuff. So maybe it’s just me.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-07 04:04:00 UTC

  • (SILLY) I NEED A 16GB MACBOOK Seriously. I run out of 8GB of RAM all the time. W

    (SILLY) I NEED A 16GB MACBOOK

    Seriously. I run out of 8GB of RAM all the time.

    What USES ram? For me, its browsers. I have a lot of them open.

    What BLEEDS ram? Flash, Word.

    What HEMORRHAGES ram? Any application written in Java. Unfortunately, a lot of our development tools are written in this digital equivalent of an Anticoagulant: ForeUI, Phpstorm, Mysql Workbench. Leaky, crashing, nonsense.

    Have I told you that I hate Java lately? I did? I forgot. So I must not be saying it enough if I can’t remember the last time I said it. I hate Java. There I just said it.

    On the other hand I love Javascript, Php, Python, C++, an ORM and MySQL.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-06 05:47:00 UTC

  • SUCCESSFULLY AVOIDING DESIGNING FEATURES TODAY. 🙂 I cant seem to figure it out.

    SUCCESSFULLY AVOIDING DESIGNING FEATURES TODAY. 🙂

    I cant seem to figure it out. Gotta be a better way. Easily distracted by shiny news objects. Even after six cups of coffee.

    But that said, It is 5:30pm here on friday. And i did something today. I think. Maybe.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-04 10:31:00 UTC

  • MORE BAN ON ELECTRONICS DURING TAKEOFF AND LANDING 🙂

    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/technology/faa-nears-new-rules-on-devices.html?smid=fb-shareNO MORE BAN ON ELECTRONICS DURING TAKEOFF AND LANDING

    🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-25 08:31:00 UTC