In the last few weeks, I've talked with a number of friends about career changes. Some are feeling antsy and just want to move, others are starting their own consulting, and others are starting and joining startups. While I've done all the above – to varying levels of failure success – I thought I'd share […]
Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house,Not a peripheral was stirring, not even my mouse. I with my Xbox and wife with the same had just settled down to a nice co-op game. I covered the front, she took the rear our enemies had a dynamic duo to fear. At a loud […]
I'm proud to have the honor to make the single biggest announcement of 2009: Google is open sourcing the Page Rank Algorithm! We've all wondered for years what the factors and their weighting were. Now we'll know for sure. No more guessing on what the penalties are for duplicate content. No more guessing on what […]
As of this morning – 09 December 2009 – web2project v1.2 is live! While there is not a huge amount of new user-facing functionality, the sheer number of fixes and amount of cleanup is staggering. Since the v1.1 release in September: Pedro made some major updates to the iCal handling which added the Task Description […]
After the recent beating I gave Packt Publishing's “PHP Team Development” , I had a number of people ask what books I would recommend. To be honest, that's one of the easiest questions I've gotten in a while. And that's because when we put together Blue Parabola about a year ago, I had the chance […]
1. The ultimate long-term relationship: Secure and maintain executive management support: To gain and sustain project momentum, executives must support the automation of project and portfolio management processes that span multiple business units. • Enterprise projects cross organizational boundaries and touch multiple levels within each business unit. To keep support from end users, it is […]
Generally, I only use this space to talk about concepts, products, and events that are important to me when I believe others can find value too. I try not to write negative reviews because I don't believe it adds value to the community… but occasionally, I have to do otherwise. In terms of disclosure, I […]
In the last few months or so, it appears the PHP Community has finally found the Joel Test. Lorna Jane spoke about it last month at PHPNW 09 and this week Brandon Savage adapted it for web development. While I’d love to point out the fact that I’ve been writing about the Joel Test for […]
Well, ZendCon has officially been done for a week… so what is there left to say that Ed Finkler, Travis Swicegood, Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson, Ivo Jansch, Michelangelo van Dam, Akeem Philbert, Anna Filina, Jason Austin, and Bradley Holt haven't said? Well honestly, not much… so I'm going to do some quick hits and move on. […]
It’s been a while since the last update, so I thought I should let everyone know what’s going on towards the v1.2 release (eta December ’09). As of this week, we’re approximately halfway there. A small number of bugs – so far none critical or major – made it into the release, these are on […]