posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 2:53 PM
by
davidboschmans
Get the conversation started on the DAM or ADAM Blog
AlfaPrint, one of the ISV’s I’ve been assisting in their adoption process of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005, have loyal users. One of them is Dirk Stevens. Dirk is DAM Manager at Agfa and decided to start a blog: the DAM or ADAM blog. In his blog Dirk wants to share his knowledge and enthusiasm around ADAM and DAM systems in general. The goal is to create a community around ADAM, not as an enhancement request or bug report platform, but a place where equally-minded people share their thoughts and visions on ADAM.
In his first post he requests some feedback on the issues and bottlenecks every Windows platform user is facing today when handling graphical files. Windows Vista definitely does a better job than previous OS's. And Office 12 has an open XML format. Check out Brian Jones' blog if you want to learn more on the latter. In a recent blogpost he announces that "Corel will support Microsoft Office Open XML Formats".
Talking about communities: one of the developers working on ADAM at AlfaPrint, Michael Vanhoutte, wrote a couple of technical articles. They can be found on CodeProject:
Based on my discussions with Michael I think he should consider blogging. Not only “to blog” as such, but mainly to talk to the ADAM customers. Like Dirk. Michael has a deep understanding of how the software has been developed and why it was concepted like that. Dirk knows what he expects from ADAM and wants to share his thoughts with the community.
Hey guys, wat do we need more to get this conversation started?