Sunday June 29 2008
When you need to get some creative work done after a week with too much work and too little sleep, a change of scenery helps. So I've been trying some completely mobile working.
My new phone (HTC Touch Diamond) works quite well for re...
Sunday June 29 2008
The past week has been fairly intense here, so I haven't had time to blog the latest developments on the startup. As well as having some day job deadlines to deal with, a Friday deadline for a demo resulted in a couple of days working 8am to 5am.
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Thursday June 19 2008
A web form I am currently working on has a couple of simple requirements:
The user should be notified as soon as an incorrect value is entered.
The values entered need to be validated using a complicated set of rules in a back end system, av...
Wednesday June 11 2008
When creating a new online service, two aspects of the development are particularly important:
Developing something quickly - if you don't release something you're going to have trouble making any money
Scalability and good design - if a mil...
Tuesday June 10 2008
Working on my own project, without the usual constraints of detailed requirements and specifications, I get a lot of freedom in the methodology I use.
This means that I can focus efforts a little differently - As long as the available devel...
Saturday May 31 2008
A couple of days ago I saw a post on Venture Hacks, Free Ideas - Just Add Execution, linking to Mike Speiser's blog. Mike's position is that ideas aren't valuable and execution is everything.
There are a lot of non-valuable ideas out there,...
Friday May 30 2008
A couple of weeks I posted about hiring a development team in Thailand. Having completed that process, it's now time to write about the results.
Actually getting the job ad posted took a bit more doing than expected - doing business online ...
Sunday May 25 2008
There are a lot of challenges in getting someone else to write your code, both in communicating what you want up front and in making sure that what gets written is what you wanted. This is hard enough when you have a clear requirement like duplica...
Sunday May 25 2008
While randomly looking through the incoming searches on my blog, I came across a post from Bamboo Solutions - How to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 on Vista. Hacking the installer to allow SharePoint development without building a VM ...
Sunday May 25 2008
I've seen a few posts lately covering whether or not you need to know C to be a good programmer, most recently Do you really need to know C? I think so from Darren Stokes.
To a certain extent it seems like people who know C think everyone s...