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Project Management from the Developer's Perspective - Planning

Stacey Mulcahy
December 8, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (5)

Seems every discipline in the interactive space has their little motto or saying. Account services are famous for “ the client loves it but wants to change everything”, or perhaps just make the logo bigger. Designers are simplicity’s pimp because...

Project Management from the Developer's Perspective : Project Taxonomy

Stacey Mulcahy
October 28, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (7)

Project Management from the Developer's Perspective : Project Taxonomy

If I had a dime for each time some name or term was butchered, most often by the resident local marketing douchebag extraordinaire , I surely would be in the tax bracket pronounced astronomical and starting a commune with Wesley...

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Project Management from the Developer's Perspective - On Estimation

Stacey Mulcahy
October 1, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (3)

When it comes to the topic of estimating, my favorite line to throw back at the sad soul who is asking for some intangible number is - " I'll see your vague, my friend, and raise you a wide open"....

Project Management from the Developer's Perspective

Stacey Mulcahy
September 26, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (13)

Project Management from the Developer's Perspective

I'm not entirely sold on the fact that the title of this series is completely fitting. At least, it certainly feels a tad bit on the ironic side given the breadth of my experience as an interactive developer. Project Management from the Developers Perspective. This suggests that I have a viewpoint - or at the very least, have a vantage point to “see things”. The reality of my experience has taught me in some of the most brutal ways, that more often than not, I’m too busy assuming the position to actually be able to have one.

FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 5: Mate, the Pure MXML Framework
Tony Hillerson

Let’s get this out of the way first thing. It’s Mah-tay, not M-eight. Like the drink, the creators of Mate, Nahuel Faronda and Laura Arguello, come from Argentina. If you’ve never tried Mate (the drink), you should - it’s tasty.... Continue Reading
FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 4: IoC With Swiz
Tony Hillerson

With a name like Swiz, it has to be good, right? Welcome back, friends, to part four of our ongoing effort to understand these four Flex frameworks. This time we’re going to look at Swiz, a relative newcomer, created by... Continue Reading
FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 3: Framework Agnostic Views with PureMVC
Tony Hillerson

Last week we took a look at how to clean up our Twitter client by using Cairngorm to separate the concerns according to the time honored MVC architectural pattern. Now we’re going to see how it feels to work with... Continue Reading
The Design of a Rich Spatial Flex Viewer for GeoWeb 2.0
Moxie Zhang

Despite all the movement toward Web 2.0, GeoWeb is still in the Web 1.0 age. In the quest to establish the Geospatial Web or GeoWeb 2.0, a rich spatial Flex Viewer has been created, and it’s free. All source code... Continue Reading