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I took a few hours yesterday and migrated from Drupal back to Wordpress. While Drupal is good platform, it was a bit overkill for my needs. Apologies to anyone that had their RSS sub behave weirdly. Interesting notes from the migration: It was actually difficult to find instructions online for the migration from Drupal to Wordpress [...]
Continue reading...NextAutos.com launches
16. June 2008
After many months and countless hours of hard work we’ve finally launched NextAutos into the wild. An evolution of Winding Road Magazine, NextAutos is a new site for automotive enthusiasts. More to follow but thanks to everyone from nFusion and Rain City Studios for bringing it together.
Continue reading...Great Post on Link Building Fundamentals
14. April 2008
Great post on link building by Adam Auddette.
Continue reading...SXSW 2008, Day One: 10 Lessons of 37 Signals (Jason Fried)
8. March 2008
Jason Fried of 37Signals fame doesn’t dissappoint as a speaker and this was another great presentation with some good takeaways and quotes. While I don’t always agree with him, he does an excellent job of bringing the learnings of his small agile team into the spotlight for consideration. In his very Zen-like presentation Fried emphasized [...]
Continue reading...SXSW 2008, Day One: Ajax and Flash Mistakes (Jonathon Boutelle)
8. March 2008
SXSW 2008 started out great with AJAX and Flash Mistakes: Lessons Learned Building SlideShare presented by Jonathan Boutelle, CTO of Slideshare. Boutelle’s style and presentation were a welcome start to a day of panels and presentations that can always be a challenge. Presentation Key Takeaways: Modal Dialogs are seductive Provides a way to get around links and the [...]
Continue reading...Arbitrary posts
17. February 2008
A friend mentioned the other day that I haven’t posted in some time. Truth is that I generally don’t post for the sake of posting and I’ve been pretty busy since starting a new position with NextScreen. Now that I’ve settled in a bit I will be posting about the activities and challenges of starting, staffing [...]
Continue reading...New Web=(Resources+URL)+Views
2. January 2008
While I don’t line up with with the total web 2.0 labeling, Tom Scott has a great article that outlines some evolutionary changes in considering web development. As he points out “Site owners effectively thought of their sites as silos - a self contained object, a web of pages, with a handful of doors (links) [...]
Continue reading...Q and A with Luke Wroblewski
6. July 2007
Design Sessions has a good interview with Luke Wroblewski. In particular, I thought the following passages were very interesting: “Q: How do you know when a design is successful? How does your definition of success relate to usability, technology, and art? Luke: A site is successful when it achieves the goals you set for it. I know [...]
Continue reading...Great post by Jeffrey Zeldman on Web Divisions
2. July 2007
Great post by Jeffrey Zeldman on the “void on the org chart”.
Continue reading...The rise of the Web Strategist
26. May 2007
Jeremiah Owyang has a good podcast discussion with Steve Gehlen Steve Gehlen on the state of the Web Strategy Industry about the growth of the web strategist role. While I don’t think anyone who is a “decision maker and stakeholder of a website” is a web strategist, it is interesting to consider the lineage of [...]
Continue reading...- Another Brilliant Berkun Post
- Choose your Methodology, not a Development Dogma
- Congratulations to ProductCamp Austin
- Product Camp Austin Venue
- NextAutos.com launches
- Andrew Chen's Renewable Online Audiences
- The invisible hand grabs an iPhone
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- Software Curator
- Christian Watson's Elements of Design Showcase
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- Software Curator
- Choose your Methodology, not a Development Dogma
- Congratulations to ProductCamp Austin
- Another Brilliant Berkun Post
- Product Camp Austin Venue
- ProductCamp Austin
- New Site: Ask Good Product Manager
- Arbitrary posts
- Great post by Jeff Lash on Goals over Features
- Generalized Scrum meetings for everyone
Now Reading
Planned books:
- Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics by Paul Ormerod
Current books:
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The Death of Economics by Paul Ormerod
Recent books:
- Butterfly Economics: A New General Theory of Social and Economic Behavior by Paul Ormerod
- Agile Estimating and Planning (Robert C. Martin Series) by Mike Cohn
- Effective Prototyping for Software Makers (Interactive Technologies) by Jonathan Arnowitz
- The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam
- Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter) by Garr Reynolds
21. July 2008
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