Saturday 17 May 2014

Efficient RAW processing

Don't struggle with RAW any more, there is a solution:
  1. Superfast view and choose best RAW shots by ranking: http://www.fastrawviewer.com/. Just download and use all the time. Released 3 days ago, I'm really happy. Very fast.
  2. Extract JPEG previews from your RAW: http://www.picurl.org/blog/2009/07/18/ultra-fast-raw-to-jpeg-conversion-with-exiv2/. In short, if you are a Nikon-guy, then get exiv2 and typically run exiv2 -ep3 *.NEF on your folder.

Thursday 1 May 2014

Monday 28 April 2014

Priority-based project management

So here we have Project 2013, but what do we see:


Exactly, "Hello Windows 3.1"! But why? I remind the same case with having only 16 colors available to style background of a cell until Excel 2007. But, as Joel Spolsky has described, it's intentional. It's a priority-based development: they had this "issue" on the list for years, but got it to be fixed only recently. I suppose that for Project there is the same case.

Is it good or bad? Well, I hope that Microsoft will be capable of finding additional people to fix that minor but disappointing stuff. Certainly, 95% won't notice a problem, but others 5% will, and that can make sense, because those guys/gals are usually early adopters, evangelists and IT decision makers. It's like a debt, but not technical, rather a task-based debt. Sometimes everyone needs to make a cleanup, at least each year before Easter, right? :)