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Are you having Issues with project managers?
Project managers are responsible for projects success, regardless of the obstacles. Often, most of the problems described above are due to skill deficiencies in the project manager. You likely need a process, a better policed process, training for your project managers or a few new ones!
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Subversion and branching strategies
What is Subversion Subversion is an open source application used for revision control. It is sometimes abbreviated to SVN in reference to the name of its command line interface. Subversion boasts many advanced features, such as atomic commits, versioned directories, and good support for binary file formats, fast branching and tagging. The open source Apache…
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How to Interview a Developer
First of all, the #1 criteria for getting hired: Smart, and Gets Things Done. Process Joel Spolsky is a highly regarded software engineer and he details how best to interview development candidates, this is an amended and augmented version of that process. see The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing Introduction Question about recent project candidate worked…
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100+ contacts, not one little wave in 5 months – Is google wave dead?
Like many others i was interested to get hold of a Google wave account. I tried to make the most of it for months, inviting many to join and testing waves and the varied add-ons. But, it just seems to have no present use in my life, or by the looks of it any of…
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Balsamiq – Wireframes and mockups tool
A great tool for creating fast site and other device mock ups.
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BlackBerry QuickKeys and Shortcuts
Every Day Quick Tips Alt+O = Outbox (sent items) Alt+I = Inbox (received items) Alt+U = Marks messages as read/unread Alt+P = Phone call log Alt+S = SMS messages Alt+V = Voicemail messages Alt+M = MMS messages. U – to cycle through unread messages Once inside the message and you need to: Reply, r. Forward,…
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GIT – Version Control
I am currently looking into GIT, I have previously used CVS and our current repository of choice is Subversion. view a Comparison against Subversion. Git is… Git is an open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Every Git clone is a full-fledged…
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Qu-s desktop notes
Qu-s is a simple desktop organistation tool which allows you to keeps what you need at your finger tips but out of your way! It has some great features usually reserved for word processing applications which allow you to bring better bring organization to your ideas and your notes. Features include: bullet, check boxes and…
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iLife 09, IPhoto Review
I have had iLife 09 for 5 days. I’ve been using IPhoto and the new features are well integrated and the faces technology is very impressive. I started testing by uploading to flickr, facebook and the mobileme gallery, all worked first time and the process was (as you would expect) very simple. I had downloaded…
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Cloud Computing – Why is it so good for business?
From a financial perspective, Cloud Computing pushes risks onto the people that own the assets. The business in effect rent a particular set of assets, based on their usage. For the business this transforms IT capex into opex. From a development perspective, Cloud Computing enables you to potentially roll out your solution in minutes or…