“What we need is a Web browser that doesn’t just serve up
documents, but serves up applications.”
Early in 2006 I was given a design brief: a
UK-based shipping company wanted to replace its shipment tracking system with
a Web-based solution.
Its existing system consisted of this: each widget grower had a contract with
the widget producer; this contract was tracked via an Excel spreadsheet;
every Friday the shipping company would e-mail the latest copy of the
spreadsheet to the widget grower, which would fill out the details of the
latest shipment and the details of each and every container in that shipment.
This would then be passed back to the shipper, which would then forward it to
the widget producer, which in turn would fill o... (more)
The Web is full of data: statistics, surveys, and reports can be found on
almost any topic you care to search for. It's this very fact that makes the
Web the first stop in anyone's research. Want to know the average number of
petals on a daisy? Thirty-four. The number of species of whale? Eighty (or
thereabouts, depending on your definition of "whale" apparently).
Of course one could spen... (more)
What we need is a Web browser that doesn't just serve up documents, but
serves up applications."
Early in 2006 I was given a design brief: a UK-based shipping company wanted
to replace its shipment tracking system with a Web-based solution.
Its existing system consisted of this: each widget grower had a contract with
the widget producer; this contract was tracked via an Excel spreadsheet; ... (more)
Ric Hardacre discovered the Web in the mid '90s when he really should have been at lectures and not in the University computer lab. He's since worked as a Web solutions developer, systems architect, and wireless and satellite network specialist. His current day job is as an MCP C# Developer in the UK.
Pawel Plaszczak
Bob Little
Shai Quest
Bob Snyder
Jacques Durand
Alf Pilgrim
Per Sjofors
Kirsten Lytsen
Data Recovery Services
