A common dilemma of many tech managers and businesses in general is when presented with a business problem, do you build your own software or do you buy? For some companies, this is an easy answer. Some development teams are not equipped with the skills to build a particular tool or product. Other companies just [...]

A few months ago I wrote a post describing the benefits of using project collaboration software. It helps team members communicate, it avoids information hording, and at any time management can check in and see a project’s progress. At my job we use BaseCamp. It is a paid product that is extremely powerful and truly [...]

As usual, a 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 hidetext – I plan to use this one on my blog and see if it works. [...]

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 As a web developer, a lot of the specific code we wrote is no longer applicable today.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 [...]

Today, I am going to post a little weekly wrap up of links, tidbits, and other sites that came across my plate. Anything that I found useful, and aids web development and/or team management.  This will not be a huge list of links, it will be tools I actually find to be practical and useful [...]