Month: December 2003

If you’re going to put a title tag on a page, i think ordering of the articlename and sitename is quite important. Probably it’s just the creator’s “whereever-he-wants-to” decision, but i find it nice when the title is in the form […][articlename][…][sitename][…]. The main reason is when i save the page, the title is used as the filename and when the [sitename] comes first…because the files saved are viewed sorted by alphabetical order by default, it’s grouped by [sitename] which i think isn’t what i want. Is it just me? 😛

Read and Unread is always the basic state that most email client have. The problem isn’t that this classification is wrong but because the notification system notifies with only those two states assumed. I’ve got a ton of unread email which i consider to read when i get the time so i leave them in the unread state. So it’s not actually an unread unread state but a perhaps-will-read unread state meaning that i shouldn’t be notified that a new mail has arrived. Most email client doesn’t understand this and keeps notifying me that i have new mail inferencing by my unread … Continue reading Email Clients(like Outlook) Should have a Third State!

There are a vast amount of products that claims that they separate presentation and logic but are they actually real? Mostly people will be negative with that opinion usually. So what’s the problem with the scenario. What i think is that there are no product that assures roundtrip development(and code preservation) between the two. Designer’s input to programmers are mostly rough and apt to be modified. Of course if the modifications like code clean up and errors doesn’t change the original intent of the designer, there would be no problem. But in fact, most tools that both sides use doesn’t assure it and … Continue reading Work separation between a designer and a web programmer

Eric Raymond on Microsoft I don’t know. I actually thought that the process would be further advanced than it is by now. And I’m not sure why I got the time scale wrong. But because I know I did, I’m reluctant to make time scale predictions. “Don’t know but will come.” How are people to understand what he’s thinking…when an opinion leader like himself talks like that. (Even after he says he’s been proven wrong way beyond on the predictions)

Starting the msmvps.com blog. CSS color theme is snagged from Bryan Bell’s Blosxom Blog so credit goes there.   My name is B. K. Chung(people call me bk) and i’m a Microsoft MVP in korea. This is my first “english” blog since i’ve been blogging in korean for about 1 and a half year. This and this(longhorn blog) is my korean blog if anyone is interested. Hope there are lots to say in this blog 🙂