Sunday
Mar102013

We have a winner for "Worst Chart of the Year"  

While reading The Atlantic's “The Countries Where Women Have the Best Lives, in Charts” –  I stumbled into this.

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Not only is the subject horrific –  the chart is designed to confuse everyone.

Friday
Mar082013

Automating Visio with PowerShell - VisioPS 1.1 Released  

I've updated my VisioPS module: Version 1.1 has been released.

You can watch a screencast here: https://vimeo.com/61329170

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The big change in this version is the addition of these two cmdlets

  • Set-VisioShapeCell
  • Set-VisioPageCell

These cmdlets make performing common operations (shape formatting, etc.) much easier than working with the Visio ShapeSheet directly.

 

Thursday
Mar072013

A Document With all the Visio 2010 Shapes  

vLast year I mentioned a tool that could generate a catalog of all the masters in a set of Visio stencils. Earlier this morning I had to look run this tool against all the Visio 2010 shapes.

So, for those looking for the catalog document itself instead of running the tool, I've uploaded the catalog on my skydrive 

Just download the ZIP file and extract and open the “Catalog.htm” file

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Here's a sample of what you will see:

 

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Wednesday
Mar062013

An Anecdote on Innovation  

A few months ago a coworker and built something (still in progress) in great excitement showed it around to get some feedback. One response struck me: “Who is asking for this? Do you have any numbers to gauge interest?”

My response (paraphrased): Zero. Customers are very unable to articulate a desire for something that they don't know that they don't know could exist.

Big innovation happens in this space: creating concepts/solutions/product that not only didn't exist before but that couldn't have existed before. That's why it's hard, folks :-)

 

 

 

Monday
Mar042013

Interlude: A remake of Justin Timberlake's "Like I Love You" by Pete Oak  

Incredible stuff. Just listen. And then listen 10 times more.

https://soundcloud.com/pete-oak/justin-timberlake-like-i-love