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Getting Real: Pick two – scope, timeframe, or budget. A lot of people have been asking me about how to make our Getting Real process work with client work. Here are some tips — some of which may be uncomfortable. This pick-two process also applies to your own internal development. First, you have to hire… Continue reading Getting Real: Pick two – scope, timeframe, or budget

March 30, 2005. To make FogBugz work on Unix as well as Windows, we needed a PHP version. Rather than do a one-time port, we built a compiler that automatically generates a PHP version from the ASP source code. Read all about it in today's part III of The Road to FogBugz 4.0. . [Joel… Continue reading March 30, 2005

RIM Quadband Blackberries Not Good for “Low” Coverage Areas. Well, if you are in a marginal or low coverage area for your GPRS carrier like T-Mobile, I highly suggest that you not get one of the newer quad-band phones… [Alex Scoble's IT Notes]

Ed Felten: “Recently I met a promising young computer scientist, whose name I will withhold for reasons that will soon be evident. He has developed a very interesting network software system that would be useful for a great many legitimate applications. The problem, he told me, is that if too many people find out what… Continue reading Ed Felten:

What's Behind British Power? ColdFusion. We're always noting ColdFusion dominance within U.S. government agencies, and often neglect to mention ColdFusion's use by governments in other countries. Here's one worth noting. The United Kingdom Parliament site is powered by ColdFusion. [Ben Forta's Blog]

REALBasic for free. REAL Software is providing REALBasic 5.5 for Windows Standard Edition completely free of charge in response to Microsoft's discontinuation of Visual Basic 6.0 support. The offer is good until March 31, 2005. [microISV]

WordPress and permalinks and Mac OS X. I’m playing around with a WordPress installation on my laptop for a project, and had a hell of a time getting permalinks to work properly. I figured that my experience might be worth documenting for anyone else who’s playing around with Mac OS X. I should note that… Continue reading WordPress and permalinks and Mac OS X

Historical Maps of Britain. The British Library has launched a new collection of over 800 digitized (or digitised, if you're British) historical maps of the British Isles from Saxon times up until the reign of James I. Part of the “Unveiling of Britain” project,… [LibrarianInBlack]

Shiny Clean Websites with Ajax.  There is lots of development energy being spent on two relatively unknown pieces of web technology: Ajax and Ruby on Rails. Ajax is the name given by Adaptive Path's founder Jesse James Garrett to the combination of technologies used so effectively in recent web projects, particularly Google Maps, Gmail and… Continue reading Shiny Clean Websites with Ajax

How open is OpenSearch?. Last week at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Jeff Bezos announced OpenSearch, an API that enables third parties to inject their own live search results into Amazon's A9.com. I didn't attend ETech this year, but that cloud had a silver lining: I was able to dive right in and do an… Continue reading How open is OpenSearch?