Successful Projects

Josh Catone at Read Write Web wrote an awesome post about what he calls “badge soup” – a term I absolutely love – which is a condition where you’ve got so many social media badges on your site your users can’t find the one they want.
Aza Raskin has developed a bit of JavaScript code [...]

This is a major issue with almost every team running a project using an Agile methodology. Mike Cohn of Mountain Goat Software has a terrific post on his blog about how to handle those tasks that pop up during every iteration that have no specific stories associated to them.

I find myself once more in a familiar environment though my familiarity with it makes it no less frustrating and uncomfortable. The CEO of my current company has made the statement that the software developers need to work more hours. He has said, “We’re a start-up and the developers should work like we’re a start-up.” [...]

I’ve just spent the last two days cleaning out my NewsGator Inbox. I’ve read, clipped or deleted over 43,000 – yes that’s 5 digits – posts. Obviously it’s been a while since I’ve read my 144 feeds. but now I’m all caught up – at least until morning.
The problem with having such easy access to [...]

Thanks to a post from Erick Schonfeld over at TechCrunch I just tried a sweet little web app called Presdo. Erick is correct this is exactly what a modern web app should be. Simple. Easy to understand and use. Powerful. Fun and something that adds value or makes the life of the user better.
I just [...]

Ben Hunt at Web Design from Scratch just posted a great post on what Web 2.0 design really is.
To paraphrase his post it’s NOT about shiny buttons and mirrored graphics it’s about 2 things really:
1) Simple, uncluttered design with the brand up front, and
2) Simple focus
Ben is right on the money and that’s one of [...]

I just got off a call with a company called Sonata Software wherein they tried to sell us on the idea of turning over some of our software development work to them.
Their selling point was that they can do Agile with an off-shore team. I have multiple issues with this concept starting with the [...]

As a man I am saddled with an abundance of pride. This can be a good thing because my sense of pride in the work I do motivates me to improve and strive to always do better. However, pride can be a very dangerous emotion.
Take for example the situation where out of a sense of [...]