Well, my world just got a bit more confusing. Earlier this month at the WPC Microsoft announced they would be shipping several free accelerators to provide additional functionality for Dynamics CRM. Unfortunately, they are calling their new offerings the same name as my company's name, which for me anyway, will get rather confusing.
Anyway, here's the list and what they have to say about them:
Through accelerators, customers and partners benefit from new functionality on a more frequent basis, and they can be deployed to their environment quickly and easily. Delivery of these accelerators will be during the second half of 2008.
The list of accelerators is as follows:
- Analytics
- eService
- Event Management
- Enterprise Search
- Sales Methodologies
- Extended Sales Forecasting
- CRM Notifications
- Business Productivity
Read the full article on the CRM Team blog.
I am a huge music fan and watch a lot of videos, from many categories and country music is one of my favorites. That means I watch CMT a lot – and visit CMT.com quite frequently.
Unfortunately, whoever is in charge of their web design is smoking crack – or something….
Take a look at this page:
As a consumer, I am mostly thinking that I'd like to see music videos, when I click on the "music video" page. The above is what I get.
To make things even more confusing, the pictures you see are mostly related to nothing regarding the actual people in the pictures. These are categories – not actual individual music videos.
Which is the whole point to me wasting your time.
If you can't show people what they are actually going to get when they click on a link, or a picture, then why the heck are you even showing it to us? To make matters even worse, even some of their pictures and other links don't actually take you to the song or video in question. They take you to a general "artist" page where you get to select the link yet again…
Note to self, Mr./Ms. Web Designer: Bad thing. Don't do it.
Show people what they expect. Deliver on that expectation, and I think most people will be happy.
PS. The previous site design actually showed music videos on this page…
They say as you get older, that most people loose the hair on their head ( especially men ). Well, I can tell you for sure that you don't actually loose it, at least I don't. It get's misplaced.
Half of my missing hair ended up on my bathroom floor, the remainder magically migrated to my back.
:)
Wow! I got a really scary error message today after I restarted the SQL server on one of my dev boxes and attempted to hit a CRM instance:
A transport-level error has occurred when sending the request to the server. (provider: Shared Memory Provider, error: 0 – No process is on the other end of the pipe.)
That looks bad. It looks worse displayed in that ASP.NET 24 point type the unhandled exception page uses. The world is just going to freaking end.
Luckily, the world was saved by me retrying the operation. But, it was a close call. :)
Even the temperature is big here. Taken from inside my truck:
To be quite honest, it was just setting in the sun. It wasn't really 122 degrees. Only 103….
What do you call a group of teenagers?
1) A gaggle?
2) A passel?
3) A herd?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Ascentium released their CrmService JavaScript library last week. It looks very interesting and should save us CRM developers tons of time extending the CRM platform using JavaScript.
Thanks guys.
So I'm on the Texas coast this weekend recovering from the Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference in Houston this week.
Last night, in Port Aransas, I noticed that the fabled Mumu-style dress is making a comeback.
I'm not exactly sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
I learned today while driving a boat, that if someone is setting on the bow, facing forward, that you can actually navigate by butt-crack. Just point the crack toward your destination, and away you go.
Oh, that GPS stuff works well too.
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