software development
Gig Harbor Meetup – Ian Lurie

At the Gig Harbor Web Meetup. This evenings topic is on SEO optimization, guest speaker is Ian Lurie of Portent Interactive.
Will post follow up later on what I learned.

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Posted on 30th March 20101 Comment
Mono(2.2.2) – Pretty cool

Just a quick blurb: I’ve been testing the latest MonoDevelop tool 2.2.2. Yes, it is stable and run quickly. Most of the issues encountered in RC 2.2 have been addressed.

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Posted on 21st March 2010No Comments
Come out to Open Source Bridge – Portland

The road lay ahead, success or failure, and how you respond early will help determine your outcome. With much planning, thought, and expense you’ve built the greatest tribute to innovation, Solving a problem, filling a need or answering the call of excellence.

All worthy pursuits in the attempt to obtain your goals and roll out your product or solution. Success!! People are using it. One problem, people are using it.

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Posted on 17th March 20102 Comments
PHP – Zend Certified Engineer

Stardate -319008.87 and, it has come to my attention that there is a web scripting engine largely ignored. While I have been aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise for many years, and web centric development since -323906. In my own mind, I had learned all my tricks from Montgomery Scott. I had been able to avoid the PHP quadrant while keeping the dilythium crystals charged….

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Posted on 21st February 20101 Comment
New three part series – Stored Procedures

I’ll be covering database stored procedures in a three part series.

* Part 1 – What are stored procedures and how do they work?
* Part 2 – Determining when to use. What are the benefits, restrictions and so on.
* Part 3 – Extensibility, security and server efficiency

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Posted on 6th February 2010No Comments
Chaos is not a good development pattern

Just a short blurb. If life and experience has taught me anything. It is to not ignore creating a project plan. It will lead to chaos, and chaos is not optimal for efficiency.
Whether you are creating the plan or hoping to rely upon. The moral, always insist upon it being done sooner than later.

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Posted on 27th January 2010No Comments
Tarantula Hawk Open Source Initiative

Tarantula Hawk is a F/OSS lightweight, database wrapper that provides easy and consistent coding standard.

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Posted on 13th January 2010No Comments
Making yourself invaluable to your client, give them more than they expect – Or, how to eat a hot dog

So, what does a hot dog have to do with outstanding service and keeping a customer happy? I think in its most simply stated form a hot dog that costs $2.00 or a piece of software that costs $20,000 are the same.\

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Posted on 5th January 20102 Comments
Implementing successful Software Development Lifecycle Strategies (SDLC)

Software Development Life Cycle – Success or Failure.
There are many approaches that Project Management can take. Many work well, some exceptionally well and yet others fall flat on their face. So what determines success or failure in ensuring a solid, trouble free product launch? If we could in a sentence sum up this requirement it [...]

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Posted on 23rd December 2009No Comments

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