It seems many novice project managers think they can have it all, but of course it isn’t so. You do need to mange and care for your project for it to become a success. A basic and easy tool every project manager should know is the project manager’s triangle.
Archive for 2005
When you’re validating data – either client- or serverside – there are basically two strategies you can choose between. You can either blacklist data or white list data. Blacklisting seems to be the most popular way to validate data, but white listing is so much better. Here’s a brief description of the two strategies and [...]
Fieldtesting the iPod Photo
Sep 30
I got an iPod Photo a while ago. I didn’t really need it; my pocket FM tuner works quite well most of the time, but since the rest of the world is going iPod crazy it though I should join the party. The excuse used to buy was actually an upgrade of my digital camera [...]
Small smart books
Sep 29
It’s always nice to see the Internet enable new businesses and products to exist, and the pragmatic programmers has in their latest venture – Fridays – shown a new interesting idea (which I’m sure others has done before, but not in the same quality I expect from them). Small books in PDF format only available [...]
Do Repeat Yourself
Sep 13
It seems most developers has listen too much to the principle of “don’t repeat yourself”, and so otherwise bright developers in some cases strive too much to avoid repeating themselves and makes a mess of their systems but avoids repetitions completely. If your developer and reads about the DRY, do also remember the important step [...]
So I did it. I upgraded to Movable Type 3.2 – the new fantastic version. It does have a sleak interface, nifty new features and other cool new stuff under the hood. While may be a fantastic new version, it did how ever break some of my templates in a pretty bad way, and despite [...]
Weather Widget
Aug 3
If you’re a European Mac user, and using the weather widget in Dashboard, now would be a good time to replace the Widget from AccuWeather with a BBC Weather Widget. The weather reporting and forecasts a much closer to the real world than accuweather has ever been.
The Switch challenge
Aug 1
One of the few challenges in switching from Windows to OS X, has been to find replacements for my everyday applications. With a little help from a few switched friends, I quickly got running. To help others making the switch however, I’ve compiled a list of some of the replacements I’m using.
In case you’re wondering…
Jul 20
The blog isn’t dead or terminated. I’m just busy. At work we’re working on several interesting things, and on this site I’m slowly beginning to implement a long overdue redesign – since the server crash almost a year ago, things have been pretty messy under (and over) the hood of this site. It will – [...]
From windows to mac
Jul 6
Generally speaking moving from Windows to OS X has been a far lesser challenge than excepted. So far I’m only missing a few applications from the Windows world and most daily tasks on the Mac has been surprisingly easy to figure out. Here are some of the challenges I’ve had most difficulty with.