Archive for July, 2008
Tuesday 22 July 2008
There are a lot of websites that use enquiry forms. Some are huge corporate sites, some are tiny one-man bands. When re-designing the epiGenesys site I started to question how useful they actually are. Are they there for a currently relevant reason or are they just a relic of past ...
Posted in Web, Web Design | Tagged with email, enquiry forms, usability, web design | 2 comments »
Monday 21 July 2008
When re-designing our company website I was looking for something to parse and aggregate the RSS feeds for our 2.0 subscriptions (Twitter, del.icio.us etc.)
The code we were using was a nameless script that wouldn't run on our development server. As the script was over 3 years old, rather than try ...
Posted in PHP, Web | Tagged with 2.0, PHP, rss, SimplePie, web design | No comments »
Monday 14 July 2008
I'm having issues learning Ruby on Rails. "No!" I hear you cry, why could this possibly be? Have I discovered another framework that's quicker and better? Well, no. The reason I'm having trouble learning Ruby on Rails is due to content of tutorials on the web. I've found it very ...
Posted in Ruby on Rails, Web | Tagged with Ruby on Rails, tutorials | No comments »
Wednesday 2 July 2008
The stand up meeting/scrum/huddle is to allow team members to tell other members of the team what they are up to and what they plan to do. Being on your feet promotes short and informal meetings, usually being under 15 minutes.
These meetings are a great way to keep up to ...
Posted in Agile | Tagged with Agile | 1 comment »
Tuesday 1 July 2008
This is my first blog post as Software Developer and Sales Engineer. This morning comprised of a meeting to discuss what tasks I've been assigned. No "Agile" practices yet, other than me standing up during the meeting.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with General | No comments »
