Monthly Archive: October 2009

Word Automation Deployment 0

Word Automation Deployment

It’s always tricky to get applications that you’ve written and built on your own PC to run on the target environment.  One of the big reasons is that during development any problem that you...

How I Go About Creating Personas 0

How I Go About Creating Personas

I’m a novice at personas.  I mean, I’ve written some stories before– novels in High School– but I don’t know that I’ve ever been really good with biographies. Most of the time my biography...

Assuming a Different Persona 0

Assuming a Different Persona

In the book The Inmates Are Running the Asylum (aff), author Alan Cooper put the idea of personas into the mainstream.  The basic concept is creating fictional people that are typical users.  This is...

Word Automation Within A Windows Service 0

Word Automation Within A Windows Service

Just because Microsoft says that you shouldn’t do something rarely stops developers from trying. My task was to try to write a Windows Service replacement for a legacy application that saved a Word Document...