The Network Computer was a bad idea born in the middle of the ‘90, and ended up to be completly wrong. Anyway, the current software tecnologhy (like AJAX, Google Gears, the psedo-new-ms-windows os called midori) can be helpuful to sketch a new idea of operating system.

The network computer fails because it pretends to store all information (program, user data) on the server. Worst, it pretends a fee for application usage. But users preferred a buy-one model, because they didn’t like the renting model

In the NC world the Software company will also hold all you private documents,  a very security concerns.

And the software company must guarantee also nobody will look your important market strategy stored on a corel draw excel. This things costs too much.

Even Apple is trying to remove DRM from Apple Store, selling some titles without it. The reason is simple: apple needs to upgrade its copy protection scheme, for avoiding some hacker will be able to crak it. But this costs too much!

Let’s see what we can think now, after 10 years, a bunch of iPhone/EEPC out of there and Open Source full of life…

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In the last seven months I have the need of sketching a bunch of interfaces, but I cannot find a valid tool. I was a Software Architect of a big huge project, busy also on other smaller projects as project manager.

I need a rapid way to sketch use cases, to pass them to a very young team.

Web interfaces are not easy to design, and we was in a very weird situation: the team was forced to use DAOs, with no O/R mapping tool. So I need also to map some interfaces to a database model, to help them building the model and the view classes

After some search, I ended up with MS Visio.

MS Visio is great, but too difficult to use, doing training is hard and so I must discourage its use. Worst, Visio costs a lot, and it is not included with the standard MS-Office Tools.

Visio offers only WinXP look&Feel, which is not the best for designing agnostic web interfaces.

Thank you to a friend of mine, I have the discovered the BalsamIQ Mockup project. Let’s see why it is a so good solution.

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Normalmente Gioorgi.com non è un sito dedicato alla illustrazione degli errati investimenti della Redazione. Però l’andamento del Fondo Arancio di ING Direct è così fallimentare, così stupidamente deprimente che ci incita ad una concisa discussione sui meccanismi dei fondi, in modo semiserio.

Poiché tra i fondatori di Gioorgi.com ve ne è uno che ha contribuito al design del backend su cui si basa l’interfaccia di compravendita fondi (=Giovanni), ci siamo sentito molto in colpa quando abbiamo visto questo grafico:

Come si può osservare dal diabolico grafico, il fondo ha iniziato a veleggiare tranquillamente intorno ai 53 euro a botta. Giovanni, da bravo tester e risparmiatore è arrivato ad acquistarne qualche modesta quota, per un prezzo di carico medio intorno ai 55 euro. Ha continuato fiducioso nel mercato anche durante la caduta a picco del titolo, che ha iniziato a verificarsi intorno al novembre 2007.

Poiché il titolo stacca una cedola ogni giungo, il Gio credeva che di lì a sei mesi la bufera sarebbe passata, ma per sicurezza ha smesso di acquistare titoli, visto che la crisi dei mutui subprime stava iniziando a insospettirlo. 

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After a bit of working, the projects section of Gioorgi.com is coming into life. Gioorgi Team is looking forward the 2009 to finalize the research projects.

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