As a quasi-product/project and design manager, I frequently have to organize a pipeline of features very quickly, while simultaneously learning the development team’s capacity, and priorities for the tasks on the business team’s agenda.
More often than not, the business team has a pretty good idea what they want; they just don’t know how to get [...]
Know How to Say When
March 29th, 2010From the PM Trenches
July 22nd, 2009…when I broaden my approach a little, i find that many very thorny technical problems can be solved quite easily (often better) without writing a line of code
Trouble with Lowpro and Prototype
July 13th, 2009If you use Lowpro’s extensions for Prototype, you might run into this issue with Internet Explorer 7 (if not 6).
I use LowPro for its nifty shortcuts to otherwise daunting syntax for adding behaviors and page-level events to a web page. Conventions like Event.addBehavior and Event.
Recently, perhaps with the newest version of Prototype, I started encountering [...]
HowTo: Add a jiffy table of contents to a page
July 12th, 2009When I built this version (the umpteenth) of my personal web site, I wanted to use a few more tricks I’d learned in the past few years, and thought it would be nice to make them do some of the work for me.
If you’ve seen my resume page, you might have noticed the table of [...]
is rubber ducking: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RubberDucking
March 13th, 2009Posted via email from Bryan’s posterous
How much would XYZ web site cost?
March 13th, 2009I get this question a lot: “How much would it cost to make a web site like ‘XYZ Stuff!’, except with A, B and C?”
It’s not a bad question, and honestly, ask any one who’s built one or more sites before, and you’ll get a different answer from each. However, I just recently responded to [...]
Blackberry Snob: Someone who thinks you can text as fast as they can, even tho you have an ancient cell phone
March 9th, 2009Posted via email from Bryan’s posterous
Watch your language…no, really!
February 18th, 2009Well this is really clever. Neat example of natural language processing and design rolled together. Will be neat when they have more objects to play with, but looking at what others have done is also pretty cool…WordsEye Login.
Monster Commute a free steampunk webcomic about traffic
February 17th, 2009Monster Commute a free steampunk webcomic about traffic.
From the "oh FINALLY" file…
February 15th, 2009http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/14/the-death-of-web-20/
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