The key things you need to know and do to publish to the Amazon Kindle and IBooks.

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Are you having Issues with project managers?

by markedgington on January 3, 2012

Project managers are responsible for projects success, regardless of the obstacles. Often, most of the problems described above are due to skill deficiencies in the project manager. You likely need a process, a better policed process, training for your project managers or a few new ones!

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Site Go-live Checklist

December 23, 2011

When that sites about to go-live you had better do some checks. Here is a list to help you out.

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HTML 5 vs Apps (and flash)

September 9, 2011

I have had a few questions on this recently, so thought i would summarise the answers i gave her. Q. What are the advantages of apps and why would i want to use HTML 5 Native apps such as those deployed to a handset i.e IPhone have the following potential advantages: The can be feature rich and utilize phone [...]

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Subversion and branching strategies

April 27, 2011

What is Subversion Subversion is an open source application used for revision control. It is sometimes abbreviated to SVN in reference to the name of its command line interface. Subversion boasts many advanced features, such as atomic commits, versioned directories, and good support for binary file formats, fast branching and tagging. The open source Apache [...]

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Web Project Management Methodologies and Pitfalls

February 9, 2011

This is a talk i gave to the IET in October 2010: You need to view the full post to see the slides. Web Project Management Methodologies and Pitfalls View more presentations from markedgington.

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Web Oriented Architecture – a battle with the dark side?

February 1, 2011

This is a talk i gave to the IET 2009. You need to view the full post to see the slides. Web Oriented Architecture – a battle with the dark side? View more presentations from markedgington.

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How to Interview a Developer

January 26, 2011

First of all, the #1 criteria for getting hired: Smart, and Gets Things Done. Process Joel Spolsky is  a highly regarded software engineer and he  details how best to interview development candidates, this is an amended and augmented version of that process. see The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing Introduction Question about recent project candidate worked [...]

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