March 2010
42 posts
“Probably the most difficult situation is the latter — a boss that’s too...”
– Not sure who this boss is, but he sounds like a dick. Fix your boss (or, reduce risk to quality using matrixing) | Rational Scrum
Linked Data for the Culture Sector →
“How often are these things actually enforced in a business like ours? And if...”
– Employment contracts: What are they good for? - (37signals)
“Interesting to have a look behind the site and unravel the code though. Which...”
– That Times paywall: how young is it expecting its readers to be? |
Technology |
guardian.co.uk
“My heartbeat leapt the minute the words were spoken to me back in 2008 “and we...”
– The ultimate excavation | Dig for Shakespeare
“Crying over spilled milk; making mountains out of molehills; worrying that the...”
– How to Stop Sweating the Small Stuff
Any West Mids Drupal experts out there? Have a month’s work in May, working from our Birmingham office. Good rates for the right person.
Implementing Dynamic Finders and Parsing Method... →
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http://freelancefolder.com/10-top-seo-techniques/ →
Spent a full day with Jana trying to finalise Made Media’s Accounts. Still not done. Risking divorce as usual. An annual struggle.
Enjoyed this week’s Mad Men. The most resonant portrayal of the pitch/proposal process I’ve seen. Not usually it’s strongest point.
Oi @chilternrailways. Laptop power not working in either direction today. Semi-regular occurrence. Much more and I’ll stop brand advocating!
Three meetings in #thatlondon today. I make that one too many; sweaty and stressed. At least my pedestrian autopilot works now though.
Loads of iPlayer stuff missing from iPhone and Virgin Media. Is this due to the new DRM I’ve been hearing about?
No parking ticket! When will my luck run out?
I could kiss every last one of those Made guys.
“So, we’ve had rich text editing in browsers for more than ten years now. Problem...”
– The Tragic Comedy that is Rich Text Editing on the Web
“Agile frameworks such as SCRUM and XP say absolutely nothing about the IA and...”
– Design Chunking with Scrum | Agile user experience | Nomad8
“At LevelTen all of our Sprints run alongside each other, working in 2 week long...”
– Using SCRUM for Internal Company Proccesses / Tasks | LevelTen Web Design | Dallas, TX
“Everything we’ve read about scrum centers around one team working on one product...”
– Using Scrum…but with a Blended Backlog | LevelTen Web Design | Dallas, TX
“I first read Glengarry Glen Ross when I was at Rada. I was 20 and it blew me...”
– Five Reasons To See…Glengarry Glen Ross - - Features - Whatsonstage.com
“What do 30s art deco architecture, slide-projected optical illusions, on-demand...”
– Flatpack Festival will celebrate curious culture. That’s on Wired. Yes Wired.
“It’s fair enough if you haven’t had the opportunity to work on...”
– Made Media’s own Tim Kitchen talks about getting your first gig on B-Hive. Nurturing Birmingham’s Creative Talent.
“According to research by PRS, Bristol has spawned more musicians relative to...”
– BBC - Bristol is Britain’s ‘most musical city’. Birmingham don’t make the top ten, Manchester at seven, behind Cardiff, Wakefield and Cheltenham.
Not sure these population-adjusted figures really mean anything, but they’re good fun, and Bristol instinctively feels like...
“there are ways to play the acquisition game (or even financing game) and make...”
– Why Grow? and Other Wisdom from 37Signals
Today made media has mostly been in Manchester. Leaving impressed.
Would be interested to hear about any digital agencies successfully using scrum in a busy multi-project, fast turnaround studio environment.
So glad I made it home before Ella’s bedtime. She started crawling today. Seems pretty pleased with herself. We’re aprehensive…
contentEditable →
JavaScript/DHTML Tutorial →
slowly dawning on me that nice twitter usernames are even harder to get hold of than nice domain names, because they cost nothing.
Nice try @RalliSolicitors, but I’ll only work with a Parker user. Ralli branded pens don’t have ‘market traction’.
So fed up discussing platform choice with potential clients. It’s like selecting a solicitor based on their preferred brand of pen.
I’d really like to thank you @markjames for your persistent efforts on Twitter in portraying me as some hellish David Brentalike.
Books in the Age of the iPad — Craig Mod →
nice layout.
Turns out you can’t fly direct from Birmingham to Warsaw. Fearing another midnight cruise to Heathrow…
Compare Systems » Welcome to Compare Systems →
“we’re breaking into small teams of three (two programmers, one designer). We’re...”
– A New Way of Working: A Two-Month Recap - (37signals)
“Does the work you are being shown contain your favourite colour? This is...”
– I AM THE CLIENT!