Thoughts From SCiW | Some Code i Wrote

Accurate Estimates Via The Unified Process

Creating accurate, honest estimates can seem near impossible and a tremendous use of time. The good news here is that…

Website de-bugging process and tips

Trouble shooting or de-bugging most things is not particularly hard, so long as we have a good process in place.…

Automation

I’m a one-man shop and I like it that way. The main drawback here is that my output is seemingly…

Core Competencies

Whatever our lot in life, we can obtain more success by continually working on our core competencies. Expanding and refining…

Competition vs Collaboration

I often hear statements which revolve around the same issue. Both clients and developers complain about the other. Clients will…

Outcome Based Pricing

Pricing is a common topic of concern; both for the consumer and the supplier. Clients want a fixed price up…

Preserving SEO

I far too often hear “You can’t help but loose SEO when you refresh a site”. This misguided theory is…

Website Security

Website security concerns everyone. In order to understand how to protect out digital assets, we must understand how hacking works.…

Websites Should Be Fast

To display a webpage, a device and browser combination must request a file, receive a file from the server, then…

Browser & Device Agnostic

In order to deliver a proper experience to the most users, I rely on a few key principles. Webpages are…

Understanding Caching

Caching is where something is stored and re-used to prevent it from having to be created or downloaded again. Caching…

The Joel Test

I stumbled across The Joel Test some time ago. An adaptation from a process a major company developed, the Joel…

Agile Development & The Unified Process

The Unified Process The Unified Process was invented by IBM and works well for all kinds of development. You take…

MoSCoW

Simple and elegant, the MoSCoW approach fundamentally prioritizes a project's goals. For larger projects, I generally recommend a project MoSCoW…

The Cone of Uncertainty

Scope creep can eat any development team alive. Understanding the cone of uncertainty helps to nip scope creep in the…

Cross Browser, Device Compliance & General De-bugging

Delivering a proper and rich experience to every browser and device combination boils down to best practices. Nearly any browser…

How to Make Internet

Understanding how computers render webpages facilitates proper development. There are two general approaches, server side and client side. Both tactics…

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

CSS is the backbone of structuring and styling web pages. CSS relies heavily on knowing the CSS properties and good…

Programming Comments

Technically speaking, comments should be used for planning and reviewing, code description, algorithmic description, resource inclusion or debugging. Often times…

Development Roles

These are some basic development roles, as it relates to standard web development. Understanding who does what helps a team…

Which Content Management System is the Best?

Over the years I have seen countless posts and articles: “This CMS Vs. That CMS”. The common flaw in these…

Development Resources

Tools are your friend. Validators help de-bug and cross browser check your code, but will also help you become a…