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Website Project Management - Part 3
- By: chrisgarrett - 31st Oct 2005
In previous parts of this series we looked at what a project is and preparing for a project. For this final part we will discuss actually managing a project and how people often get into trouble by overlooking some very simple things.
Website Project Management - Part 2
- By: chrisgarrett - 7th Oct 2005
Part one introduced us to projects. In this next part of our website project management series we are going to get ready to begin the actual project plan. Before we do there are some things we need to sort out.
DivX Free Today Only
- By: chrisgarrett - 29th Sep 2005
I am quite a fan of DivX so it was a nice suprise to see that today you can get the create package for windows for free to celebrate their 5th birthday.
Website Project Management - Part 1
- By: chrisgarrett - 23rd Sep 2005
Many people get away without managing their website build as a project. For those of you with very simple requirements or who work from home in their underpants button-pushing their 100th scraper site of the day, this might not be too relevant. If, on the other hand, you are embarking on something complex, with more than a couple of team members or especially if the website is for a client, then project management is an absolute must.
"User Experience" vs. "Spam"
- By: chrisgarrett - 7th Sep 2005
I have been busy recently working on making certain sites more accessible. One of the techniques we have employed is to use DIVs and CSS. After catching up on my RSS habit and reading this SEW thread it struck me what a tricky job Search Engines have on their hands.
What is AJAX?
- By: chrisgarrett - 30th Aug 2005
Lately there has been a lot of talk about this thing called "AJAX" and how it is the new big thing in web development etc etc. In this post I aim to give you a bit of background so next time it is mentioned you will know what the hell they are talking about.
Chris Garrett on Web Development
- By: chrisgarrett - 25th Aug 2005
.. or "about me and this blog" :O)
My name, if you haven't already guessed, is Chris Garrett. Nick has kindly given me my own personal blog/soapbox/ranting area and this post will explain who I am and what I will be doing with this opportunity.
Google snapping up Microsofts evil?
- By: chrisgarrett - 3rd Mar 2005
Scoble says Google seem to be snapping up the people who did evil at Microsoft ;O)
The folks who did "evil" stuff at Microsoft (Hailstorm and Smarttags) are now at Google. Remember Hailstorm? It never shipped. Why not? Because we (customers, this was back before I was a Microsoft employee) didn't want to let Microsoft own all of our data.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/03/03.html#a9505
Added by Nick:
Windows Veteran Jumps Ship to Google
A top Windows architect has left his Redmond home to join the ranks at Google, although it's not clear what his new position will involve. Marc Lucovsky, a 16-year Microsoft veteran, joins a number of high profile developers hired by the search giant, including Mozilla programmers Ben Goodger and Darin Fisher.
More at BetaNews
How to Break Captcha's on Blogs
- By: chrisgarrett - 31st Jan 2005
Interesting article on how to comment-spam captcha enabled blogs
(if you were one of the 94 people i comment spammed) sorry about that, and hope that you are not pissed. if you are new to my site, then you must realize that i like to stir things up every once in a while. if you've been here before, then i'm hoping you've got a smile on your face, and sort of expect stuff like this from me :) anyways, you were targeted for 2 reasons. 1) because your blog uses CAPTCHA to provide a false sense of security. 2) because we are members of the same group. so i know a handful of you (and know of most of you). could easily have done this against a bunch of strangers ... but did not think that that was a good idea. this is just my way of saying that we've got more work to do. i will not be comment spamming you anymore. unless you comment spam me back in retaliation ... and then i'll have to blast you out of the water ... just kidding.
Google Flavors
- By: chrisgarrett - 10th Jan 2005
Is this Google Labs tool useful for working out what theme your site has?
Basically if you put your URL in the tool will return which categories G thinks your site comes under.
I blogged about it but it seems after asking Nick that this tool has been mentioned before back in November (the forum thread talks about theme bubble, not sure how I have missed that or if it discusses an older version of the tool) but did not spark any discussion, do any Threadwatchers find this tool interesting/useful?
With what DaveN has to say about links and theming perhaps this is worthy of a little debate? ;O)