Project Management
Task Management: Prioritizing To-Do Items
Over the years I’ve used several different systems for managing tasks. Some of them were PHP based. More recently I’ve had the pleasure in working with a system called Basecamp. Read More…
Communication Should Not be an After Thought
Can you be too busy to communicate with your customers or your team? Is “no response” a valid way of communicating?
Does good communication just happen? Read More…
Website Specification How to Guide: Project Requirements
Creating a website specification is the most important task of a project. Get this wrong and the whole project can tank, including making an unhappy customer and an unprofitable project. Get the website specification right and you can meet the project deadline and bring in profit. The importance of this is often under estimated. Implementing these techniques to create the website requirements and the project timeline will make your life easier and your clients happy. Read More…
PHP Programming: The Benefits of Peer Pressure
Peer pressure often times gets a lot of bad credit. But in the programming workplace, what if there was no peer pressure? Would that be a good thing?
Let’s skin this animal and see what we find. Read More…
PHP Programmers: Stop Whining and Shut-up!
We jump off a cliff and wonder why we get hurt when we hit the ground. We stab ourselves and can’t figure out why we are bleeding. We want a lot of money, but we are not willing to work for it.
Welcome to a world where your destiny is in your hands. Action is the answer to your problems. Read More…
The Plague of IE6: Throw the Monkey into the River!
Back when Internet Explorer 6 was mainstream, it was normal practice for web developers to implement hacks for code to work properly in that browser. But are some of us still encouraging this practice? What part are web developers playing in spreading this disease? Read More…
10 Things I Wish I Knew as a Web Programmer 10 Years Ago
When I reflect on my past experience as a web programmer, there are many things that I know now that I didn’t know ten years ago. The learning process was valuable, but I could have been at a different spot today as a PHP web programmer if I knew these things earlier. Sometimes you don’t have the info when it would benefit you the most, but my hope is that this list will give you something to reflect on. Read More…
Improve Profitability and Productivity: Why Working More is not the Solution
Most employers want to see their salaried employees work more than 40 hours per week. This is a flawed philosophy because it assumes that more work time equals more output or that putting in more time will equal more profit. This leads me to the following question.
Which employee is more valuable? Read More…
15 Ways to be the Worst Web Project Manager
There are multiple ways in managing website projects. Regardless of your management style, there are things that you should learn to avoid as much as possible. Doing these things will not only allow you to get through projects on time and on budget, but they will leave a very good impression on the clients you work with, and your boss will not hesitate in giving you the reins on high profile projects. Read More…
Outlook vs Gmail
Over the past five years I’ve had extensive experience with both systems.
A few years ago Google launched email/calendar/etc…hosting that you can use for your business email (click here). Basically this means you can have your company emails be setup on the Google system through your own domain.
The Google solution has a lot more implemented functionality than Outlook has by itself. In any case, they are replacements for each other, and so I think it is a fair comparison. Read More…
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