Boston has a new Archbishop!  Sean P. O'Malley O.F.M.Cap was installed today as the ninth Bishop (and sixth Archbishop) of Boston.

Choosing a Shopping Cart by Paul Whitham; re: Dreamweaver. [Macromedia – Designer Developer Center]

FixedPrice. Many people belive that you can't do a fixed price contract in an agile project. Since the whole point of an agile process is that you cannot predict the future, this isn't an unreasonable supposition. However this doesn't mean you can't come up with a fixed price agile contract, what it means is that… Continue reading FixedPrice

When Good QA Goes Bad. Adam Kalsey has a good write-up of some usability mistakes for an ecommerce site. Good stuff. His write-up reminds me of the time we were testing the very first Borders.com Web site way back in 1998. The Quality Assurance department… [CamWorld: Thinking Outside the Box]

Digital Web Magazine: An interview with Jeffrey Veen. There are amazing things happening on the Web, and, interestingly enough, most businesses couldn't imagine living without it. We're spending an increasing amount of our time at Adaptive Path trying to understand the value of a quality user experience. [Tomalak's Realm]

Freelance TS. Freelance TS: Grant Barrett has an excellent article here on setting up shop as a solo freelance technical support person. I think many of the arguments also apply to adding technical-service style options to other creative technical work… could be… [JD on MX]

Coursey on software growth. Coursey on software growth: David Coursey at AnchorDesk writes “What Microsoft should do with all that cash”: “My suggestion: Start over. Yes, I think they should build a new operating system, as much from scratch as necessary to solve Windows's… [JD on MX]

“Expert” Speaks on Legal Tech Cost Savings and More. Technology for Less. Ways for law firms to save money and extend their technology budgets. From the ABA eJournal Report. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Social Software – Why go to conferences. Quote: “After I grudgingly acknowledged that I hadn't heard anything particularly unique from the speakers, we started talking about why people go to conferences. Be honest. You seldom go to hear the speakers. You go because of the other people who are going to be there. That doesn't… Continue reading Social Software – Why go to conferences

Productizing legal services. It’s not online yet, but be sure to look out for this month’s Law Practice Management Magazine which has a cover story on productizing legal services by Sally Schmidt. In it, she looks at three firms who’ve gone to some lengths to deliver packaged services (often for a flat fee) that clients… Continue reading Productizing legal services