Satter Ramblings

Farewell Mobile SST

It is with great joy and sadness that I saw goodbye for a while to the mobile application development space. Starting Monday I will be changing jobs at Microsoft. I will move into a Program Manager position on the full .Net Framework CLR team. I will continue to write about the mobile space but will be re-focusing on the full framework. In addition, I will not be traveling as much as I have in the past. So I should have more time to blog and work on the projects that I have been wanting to do after my wife and I settle down in the Seattle area.

Spam and Blogs

Have you ever wonder why I ask for login credentials for comments? Have you wondered why your comment does not immediately show up? The answer is due to spam comments and trackbacks. With junk mail filters getting pretty good, blogs have become the target of spammers. To give you an idea of how bad it has become I have gotten 40 bogus trackbacks since Friday.

With the amount growing steadily I am looking at turning off comments and trackbacks. I would like to know what other think so leave me a comment should I turn them off or leave them on? Or do you have another idea on how to combat the spam.

Why Web 2.0 will kill the net

So I am trying to find directions to an event that my wife and I are volunteering. So I first try Live.com, Google Maps, and finally MapQuest.

Shells and SSCE at MEDC

So due to the popularity of the Shell/Kiosk related articles, I will be presenting a session at MEDC 2007 on this topic.

Technical Writing

If you have ever written documents for your projects you might wonder if there was a better way to write about a topic like how to document the user interface, architecture, or functional specifications. It turns out there are some good resources that you can use to improve both the content and readability of your documents.

Microsoft

At the end of January I started to work for Microsoft. This has been an amazing couple of weeks. The downside is that I need to get permission to work on CSK. So until that comes through I will not be posting anything more unless someone sends me ndoc xml files to post to the site. Hopefully, I can get this handled shortly and continue the document CSK effort.

Site Change

I moved my blog from to Typepad.  You should check them out

Welcome

Welcome to Satter.org, the personnal blog of Rabi Satter. It covers topics on programming and Commerce Starter Kit (CSK). For information on home automation check out hageeks.com.