Synesthesia

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-03-01

• Bristol Switches to StarOffice:
  Account of Bristol City Council’s move to StarOffice, with links to backing documents
  Keywords: Enterprise_IT, Migration, OpenOffice

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-02-07

• What is Microsoft doing for security?:
  Peter Torr, Microsoft Security Program Manage, summarises what Microsoft is doing to build security into its products
  Keywords: Microsoft/Security, Security
• Unsupportable systems:
  Good post from John Dale about how changes in volume. changes in complexity and loss of knowledge can creep up on an IT organisation to make systems unsupportable.
  Keywords: Enterprise_IT, KM, Scalability, Supportability
• NSA on redacting Word and PDF documents:
  via RISKS
  Keywords: Security
• Setting Up Outlook 2003 Cached Exchange Mode Accounts:
  How and why Cached Exchange mode may be useful
  Keywords: Exchange,, Microsoft/Outlook, Mobile, Working
• OpenOffice: ToCs, Links and PDFs:
  How to build linky PDFs from your documents, including Tables of Contents
  Keywords: OpenOffice/HowTo, PDF
• How to use OpenOffice 2.0 database tool (part 1):
  Introduction – creating database, creating tables.
  Keywords: Databases, OpenOffice/HowTo
• How to use OpenOffice 2.0 database tool (Part 2):
  Data entry forms
  Keywords: Databases, OpenOffice/HowTo
• OpenOffice 2.0 Base: Getting the right views:
  How to create Views in OpenOffice 2.0 database tool
  Keywords: Databases, OpenOffice/HowTo
• OpenOffice 2.0 tips: Creating database forms:
  More on how to use OpenOffice 2.0 database tool – creating forms
  Keywords: Databases, OpenOffice/HowTo
• OpenOffice 2.0 tips: Creating database forms, part two:
  More on how to use OpenOffice 2.0 database tool – forms part 2
  Keywords: Databases, OpenOffice/HowTo

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2006-02-06

• RSS and Copyright:
  John Palfrey – Berkman Center, Harvard Law School – on the issues raised by sites which republish syndicated feeds
  Keywords: IPR, RSS, Syndication
• Scrum for Docs:
  Notes from Microsoft’s Rob Caron on using the Scrum process for managing document production in a technical writing team.
  Keywords: Project_Management/Scrum, Scrum
• The ACID Model:
  A reminder of the four goals of any dataase system: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability.
  Keywords: Databases
• Crash course in learning theory:
  Great notes from Kathy Sierra on the insights from learning theory that can make your presentation or training course that little bit more effective.
  Keywords: Cognitive_Science, Emotional_Intelligence, Presentations, Training

• kmwiki:
  
  Keywords: KM/Wikis, Wiki
• More on Chunking as an Alternative to Multitasking:
  Lisa Haneberg offers advice and a planning sheet to help with chunking your to-do list…
  Keywords: Personal_Productivity
• Agile links:
  Blog post full of links on Agile from Clarke Ching
  Keywords: Agile
• Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs:
  Generate and download unusual graph paper as PDF. I’ve found the "Cornell Note Taking System PLUS Graph Paper" one to be really good for mind-mapping meetings with space for action lists etc down the side…
  Keywords: Personal_Productivity
• Bristol City Council Open Source Academy:
  Home page for various papers from Bristol City Council based on their experience of moving to OpenOffice.
  Keywords: OpenOffice/Migration
• Visual cognitive styles:
  Two sorts of visualisation – people who construct images of objects, and people who construct images of spatial relationships amongst objects.
  Keywords: Cognitive_Science