This may seem obvious to most, especially to regular blog readers but don’t forget the development community when working on projects. There is a large community of developers and many are willing to share ideas, code, and techniques. When I am stumped, or simply taxed with a problem that has a common element to it, [...]

Solid Architecture is a Dying Art When I was in my CS program from 1992-97, we coded in ANSI C and COBOL. As a web developer, a lot of the specific code we wrote is no longer applicable today.  One major concept that was vital to writing code during my college years that I feel [...]

Semi-weekly wrap up of links, tidbits, and other sites that came across my plate.   Code, development, management, anything I found interesting since the last post.  Feel free to suggest other links in the comments. Web Tools 15 Helpful In-Browser Web Development Tools – Most people are going to be familiar with these tools, especially if [...]

Here at SmartMoney, we have been using iterative development techniques for years. Even before the term was made popular in the technology field, we ditched the long drawn out style of project development. For the most part, we now employ a more cyclical style of development where individual features are coded, tested, deployed. New features are added [...]

Sometimes its hard to effectively share everything among all members of a group.  We have weekly meetings to review our projects and their status and we use project collaboration software but sometimes we simply get absorbed in our own projects and workload. A great way to share information among team members is through fixing error [...]