Yes… I had the president of a software development company tell me (in anger), “It’s not rocket science” after asking me why a deliverable was late. “I only see one form here, how can it be that hard?”, he said. At that time I was Project Manager and Software Engineer at a product development [...]
Tags: bill gates, Business, joel spolksy, leadership, Microsoft, software developmentAt 48Web, we use WordPress for almost everything from a social media platform to blog to CMS. That being said we are pretty excited about some of the new features coming in WordPress 2.6. The first beta is available now and it should be officially rolled out sometime late July or early August.
Some of my [...]
As you may or may not know this site was originally started to persuade web developers to quit supporting IE6. I had written a script that checks the browser and if it was IE6, it was to send the user to GetANewBrowser.com (here) where they would be provided links to download Firefox or Opera. Apparently [...]
Tags: internet explorer, web development05 Nov
Posted by Andy Brudtkuhl under Development
The much anticipated release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 are upon us. Microsoft let us know today that they will be shipping these new development tools by the end of November. This is great news as Fresh Feeds 2.0 is currently being rewritten in these environments and should be released in conjuction with [...]
Last week I let my frustrations go with “5 Reasons it Sucks to be a Web Developer“, which ended up being one of the most popular posts I’ve written. One point stood out, which I anticipated, and that was #4 - Clients Suck.
Today while doing my morning reading I read a great post (as usual) [...]