I’m not a web designer myself. That’s why I’ll tell you which design mistakes are repeated over and over again. Making a cute web site Don’t make the web site just cute. You main goal should be to influence users with the power of arts. Listen to the business people carefully — they want …
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RT @rands A good program manager has a calm professional ambivalence acquired by constantly discovering worst case scenarios. # When exposing a class with auto-generated properties to WTF (sorry, WCF), you have to put [DataMember] above each of them. # Lege einen Deutschtest ab. Die Unterlagen sind als confidential gekennzeichnet. o.O # What can biking …
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Strategies dealing with Legacy Systems: http://j.mp/avR3LS # Unfair!!! I've ordered Hero yesterday. RT @TechCrunch: There's A New Hero In Town: HTC Announces The Legend http://tcrn.ch/9skcIT # Visual Studio shortcuts remain big mystery to me. In C#, place the cursor to a class member and press Shift-Ctrl-Alt. Did you know that? # WCF is unable to …
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Word of the day: Faceboog # Radeln heute ist nicht mehr die Frage, ob man stürzt, sondern wann. # WOW, advanced tabs: http://www.engkoo.com, search "white", then "black", then drop one tab onto another #cool #UX #concept # Google decided to employ Microsoft's strategy: repeat other's inventions, only better? RT @Damir: connecting buzz to twitter … …
Chinese New Year Wishes
February 14 is the first day of the new Chinese year, so this Saturday all Chinese (and also many non-Chinese) in the world will get together with their families to celebrate Chinese New Year (aka Spring Festival, ??). In this post, I’ve gathered some traditional (and untraditional) spring festival wishes. By clicking on the links, you can …
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Having hangover? Soy sauce's antioxidant activity is ten times that of wine: http://j.mp/aaMROJ Next time Chinese instead of a bar :) # I bet every Russian is immediately fascinated hearing the ?? curse first time. # @weiss_heiko Je mehr du entwickelst, desto mehr musst du debuggen. in reply to weiss_heiko # Sometimes, Fluent API is …
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You have developed web sites for too long… if you have Fiddler installed on your home PC. # @bobuk ???? ????? ?????? ?? http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bobuk-meets-new-year ????????? # RT Bewegung bei Deezer http://bit.ly/8x57bN via @TCEurope # BrowserHttp streams, but has no headers. ClientHttp has headers, but doesn't stream #Silverlight #networking #from #hell # @umputun NYSE isn't going …
Software process summary
I believe, I could show how software processes can be avoided in the company. And it will not only not compromize, but indeed improve its efficiency, manageability, and structure. To achieve it, Create a common vocabulary of artifacts and activities instead of a common process Ensure presence and motivation of competent professionals Learn how and …
Software process replaces competent employees…NOT
Previous blog posts have outlined a better alternative to a software process. Software project activities will be improvised according to the concrete situation: the kind of the project, technologies used, people in the workgroup, people on the customer side, and the contract details.
Manage software project risks by using a corporate process… NOT
In ISV businesses, the cost of an average man-hour C (including all direct and indirect expenditures) is below the hourly rate charged to the customers P. The ratio M=P/C defines the profit margin used as a buffer to compensate for failed projects, and for investitions into new products and services.