This is a tale of 2 web developers. ‘Jim’ and ‘Johnny’. They are both mid level developers looking for a job. Both are technically able and have bachelors degrees in computer science from similar schools. You have interviewed them, and while either should be a decent fit for the position you have, they are decidedly [...]

Yahoo! GeoCities is closing. This is in interesting story for a few reasons. Mainly it signifies the end of the model of offering free sites to users with simple advertising money for the host. Now sites are usually a part of a bundle with other services, like premium email. Those who are looking for free [...]

As a web developer you make a product (the website or application) usually for consumers other than yourself. It could be for fellow employees on an intranet, the general public, or some mixture. Because you are creating products for others, you need to code for so many possibilities, especially the least expected. When you deploy [...]

If you are reading my blog, there is a very good chance you are interested in the web, web development, or technology management. Today I want to talk about something I have learned more about since I started writing this blog. Its not something completely new to me, but it has become very clear since [...]

What is it about April Fools Day and the tech world? The world of tech news has adopted April 1 as its unofficial holiday. A day to write (sometimes) creative and absurd technology news stories. I will not go into specifics here, you can find many roundups of the day’s stories with a simple search. [...]

For years, SmartMoney had project manager(s).  This was more of a necessity during our early years, when projects were large 9-12+ month long beasts.  Our projects were managed in a more classical software development approach commonly used at the time. Projects had weekly status meetings, pages of specs and documents that were always in need [...]