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ProjectDistributor - project feedback now working again
There I was, so happy with myself. ProjectDistributor was ticking along nicely and I was oblivious to the fact that I - being the bonehead that I am - had totally broken the Contact forms which are attached to the individual Projects. It obviously broke late last week when I turned ViewState off for most of the pages.
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Community Culture
There's a Bedouin proverb which goes like this:
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Decision making, it's not always a case of right and wrong
The other day I mentioned that I was on the cusp of an important decision regarding my career and implied - via my favourite piece of poetry - that there were 2 distinct paths that I could take. After asking some colleagues for advice I was pointed towards a wonderful parable titled "Buridan's ass":
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First post with PostXING
I downloaded and installed PostXING today:
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An elevator pitch for SOA
OK, so you are talking with a client and a couple of their developers when they client turns to you and says: "We've heard a bit about SOA, what is it exactly?". You've got 3 minutes... GO!
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You don't need to have a deathmarch
When creating project plans make sure that you define some interim milestones for the development phase. Interim milestones allow the development team to see measurable progress and provide key stakeholders with visibility about the progress of the project. Interim deliverables are also used to keep bottlenecks to a minimum and to reduce complexity when it comes to things such as testing and regression testing.
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The Road Not Taken
The Road Not Taken has long been my favourite piece of poetry because of its darkness and its deep sense of nostalgia. I read it whenever my life reaches an important juncture as I search for meaning and answers to unanswerable questions...
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ProjectDistributor - online storage for tools and code snippets
ProjectDistributor is now pretty stable and nearly feature complete for iteration 1. This application was created as a place to store small or trivial pieces of code. Either code which was expensive to create - such as a prototype - or code which will be useful again in the future - such as a macro, server control or stored procedure.
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New Web Widget: Hierarchy Wizard
Just posted a prototype for new reuseable Wizard Framework on ProjectDistributor:
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The Colonel Kurtz Project
Patricks Cooney, theorizes over a new project management orthodoxy...http://www.patrickcooney.com/weblog.aspx?i=61
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Taskpath
At an interview the other day I was asked to describe what type of person I am. After a brief pause for thought I replied that I'm a task-oriented person. It's true; I am. I'm sure that that's why I love projects so much - you jump on a project, execute a series of tasks and then you are at the end.
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Some books for reviewing code and develoment activity
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Resource: Tips for creating successful architecture
A nice list to review next time you are in planning and wondering: "Will this succeed?" :-)
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The jobfront
Got back from holidays on the weekend and straight back onto looking for some work. I had a couple of interviews with companies this week which I've had pretty mixed feelings about. On the one hand there was some interesting work available (using different platforms, languages and databases).
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Project Distributor - new features uploaded.
http://markitup.aspxconnection.com/
There are 2 cool new features that weren't present previously.
1) When you create an account (option available via the Login page) you have the ability to add "Bookmarks" and categorize them. Bookmarks are intended to be a store of all your favourite online tools and widgets. You can bookmark both internal and external projects. When you view an internal project and you are signed in, you will see a "Add to Bookmarks" link. To add external bookmarks and categories, go to your user profile page and add them from there.
2) You can now mark Groups/Projects/Releases as "private" and they will only be available to members of your Group. This is a great option if you have a Group which you've made public but you might have a certain project that you only want to be visible to yourself (such as a special Sql script or something).
You can start with the Bookmarks immediately by going to the site and creating a User account. To get setup with a Group (which allows you to upload your own projects), create a User account and send me an e-mail requesting a Group.