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• The File Explorer Map Part - Now that's a useful error message

  There is no painless way to start this post, so I'll just leap in and thrash about. This blog has been dark for several months. Since I have a day job, that's not completely surprising. Somehow I fell out of the habit of posting, if I ever had Read More... Posted Saturday, October 06, 2007 11:47 PM by dethomas | 3 Comments Filed under: macro, map parts

• The File Explorer Map Part - Extensions and Enhancements

  In an imperfect world, even perfection is flawed. Which you would think might make me feel a little better after rereading my last File Explorer Map Part post , but that turned out to be only true in part. What did make me feel better was compiling a Read More... Posted Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:31 PM by dethomas | 0 Comments Filed under: experts, macro, map parts

• The File Explorer Map Part - Just Deep Enough

  The other day, a co-worker sent me a mail like this: Hey Beavis: How come that All Files and Folders map part you showed me only goes two folders deeper than the starting folder?" The story behind this mail is recounted in a previous post in this Read More... Posted Saturday, April 14, 2007 11:10 PM by dethomas | 2 Comments Filed under: experts, macro, map parts

• The File Explorer Map Part - How Deep is Deep?

  I had another one of those "how does this work?" moments with MindManager the other day. A colleague was using MindManager to document a software installation process, mapping binary image locations in the target file system with the install Read More... Posted Sunday, April 08, 2007 10:29 PM by dethomas | 0 Comments Filed under: experts, macro, map parts

• MindManager in Software Development - Creating Tables From Topics - Part 3

  "Once more into the breach, dear friends," spoke Henry the Fifth, delivering the line Shakespeare wrote in 1600 or so. We're not invading France in the early 1400's as Henry was, but the line seems to fit. This post delivers the third Read More... Posted Sunday, March 18, 2007 6:38 PM by dethomas | 0 Comments Filed under: experts, macro, Tables, Software Development, Design, Test, Architecture Attachment(s): TableCreation_Part3.zip

• MindManager in Software Development - Creating Tables From Topics - Part 2

  So we're back with the second installment of the Table Creation sample, rolling up Part 1 into Part 2 of a description of the MakeTable macros. Attached to this post is Part 2 of the Table Creation sample in both Word and .CHM formats. I'm using Read More... Posted Sunday, March 11, 2007 11:48 PM by dethomas | 0 Comments Filed under: experts, macro, Tables, Software Development, Design, Test, Architecture Attachment(s): TableCreation_Part2.zip

• MindManager in Software Development - Creating Tables From Topics - Part 1

  One of the things I've done with MindManager is write software requirements as Use Case behavior descriptions. Since I wanted to generate another post about creating Map document Notes tables from Topics , it makes some sense to write a Use Case describing Read More... Posted Sunday, March 04, 2007 10:05 PM by dethomas | 2 Comments Filed under: experts, macro, Tables, Use Cases, Software Development, Requirements Attachment(s): TableCreation_Part1.zip

• Turning Topics Into Tables

  One formatting thing I seem to do a lot in MindManager is fool with tables in Topic Notes. I often treat a Topic like a file card, and wind up stuffing a lot of information into the Notes attached to a Topic. But maybe this formatting task is a consequence Read More... Posted Sunday, February 25, 2007 11:28 PM by dethomas | 1 Comments Filed under: experts, macro, Tables Attachment(s): SeeMeTableCreation.jpg

• MindManager as a Platform - Revisited

  It's been a few weeks since my last post. Somehow time just passes when you're not looking. There's a John Lennon quote for this - “Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.” Or working on other problems. Read More... Posted Saturday, January 27, 2007 2:32 PM by dethomas | 5 Comments Filed under: experts, MindManager, platform, macro, xml, object model

• Platform Greatness - Balance and Hierarchy

  Two of six elements of greatness remain in this series of software platform blog posts. These are the topics of Balance and Hierarchy. Balance? Like On One Foot? With respect to a software platform, balance speaks less to the notion of equality and more Read More... Posted Saturday, January 06, 2007 12:42 PM by dethomas | 0 Comments Filed under: experts, platform, macro, xml, object model

• Platform Greatness - Variation and Evolution

  What are the essential characteristics of a great software solutions platform? A previous post in this blog talked about variation and evolution as two of six elements . In dealing with software platforms, variation is how the major themes of the platform Read More... Posted Saturday, December 30, 2006 3:37 PM by dethomas | 0 Comments Filed under: experts, platform, macro