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development

Issues with project managers?

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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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 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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Balsamiq – Wireframes and mockups tool

May 24, 2010

A great tool for creating fast site and other device mock ups.

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Why are Web Applications Superior to their Desktop counterparts?

December 15, 2009

No need for an install or to ship updates The application lives in the cloud and is centrally managed, when you launch the application you will always have the latest version. This leads to a single point for updates and fixes with the user receiving the updated version the next time they use the application. [...]

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Accessibility and Flash – Make sure you add a HTML version of the Site

December 9, 2009

Here are some of the usability and data accessibility issues with Flash. You can’t select, copy, or paste any text. Your browser’s font override features won’t work, so you can’t adjust the font or its size to be more readable. Your browser’s built-in in-page search won’t work you can’t use the keyboard to scroll through [...]

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GIT – Version Control

February 25, 2009

I am currently looking into GIT, I have previously used CVS and our current repository of choice is Subversion.  view a Comparison against Subversion. Git is… Git is an open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Every Git clone is a full-fledged [...]

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