In case you missed this little gem from the New York Court of Appeals: Court rules telecommuter must pay taxes. This has widespread and serious implications throughout the technology field. Here are just a few: First, contrary to popular beliefs, the teleworker Thomas Huckaby was actually an employee of the New York based firm. This […]
Patrick aka The Customer Service Fanatic emailed me the other day notifying me about a particular post in the SugarCRM forums. Although I have an account over there, I am rarely active prefering instead to dig through the dotProject forums and help wayward souls. But this topic immediately caught my interest… Apparently, the SugarCRM crew […]
I've always considered myself a “creative problem solver.” In fact, I remember calling myself that when I was writing my application essays for various colleges. When I got to college, one of my professors told us quite clearly: “within 3-5 years of graduation, most of the information you've learned here will be completely out of […]
Due to the impending holiday weekend, the flood of work to do, and the exhaustion of this developer, I'm writing on something totally unrelated to CaseySoftware, dotProject, Mantis, the general software topics I discuss. This time I'll be straying into a bit of politics. Bob Parsons, the CEO of GoDaddy.com, has his own blog. GoDaddy […]
Eric Sink is a sharp guy, there’s no denying that. Therefore, I’ve decided to respond to a post he made quite a while ago about staying on the top of your game in your chosen career. In terms of full disclosure, I participate quite regularly in the Joel On Software Forums which Eric hosts and […]
CEO is a bit tied up with ongoing projects for the moment, so I decided to post in the interim. The next part of the Project Estimation series should be availabe in the next day or three. In my daily wanderings of the web yesterday, I came across this post concerning who must drive a […]
Project Planning and Estimation can be a contentious issue. Yesterday, I presented a way of addressing the Developers' concerns while simultaneously demonstrating your management prowess. Today I will address the Customer side of the equation. Rule #1: A Customer Relationship is Work As Patrick has noted over and over again, “good customer service (just like […]
Project Planning is the necessary evil to all projects. Project Managers hate it, Customers hate it, and the people actually doing the work – developers for now – hate it, and every walks away from the process feeling singed, beaten, intimidated, or even lied to. The customer thought this was an easy project and hoped […]
Update: This is a very old post written in early 2005. If you're looking for a project management tool now, instead of dotProject, check out web2project. It's a fork driven by real-world features and community feedback and has a release schedule. Due to the impending release of dotProject v2.0 and a database server by my […]
Adaptivepath's article about Ajax has been flying through the blogosphere like wildfire over the past couple of weeks. I'm not linking to it here because it's #2 when searching for “Ajax” on Google. It essentially calls for a series of small interactions with a web server that happen seemlessly while the user is working with […]