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ways of working

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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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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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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100+ contacts, not one little wave in 5 months – Is google wave dead?

June 2, 2010

Like many others i was interested to get hold of a Google wave account.  I tried to make the most of it for months, inviting many to join and testing waves and the varied add-ons.  But, it just seems to have no present use in my life, or by the looks of it any of [...]

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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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BlackBerry QuickKeys and Shortcuts

September 25, 2009

Every Day Quick Tips Alt+O = Outbox (sent items) Alt+I = Inbox (received items) Alt+U = Marks messages as read/unread Alt+P = Phone call log Alt+S = SMS messages Alt+V = Voicemail messages Alt+M = MMS messages. U – to cycle through unread messages Once inside the message and you need to: Reply, r. Forward, [...]

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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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