Words From a Purple Mind

Alan Shalloway, CEO and founder of Net Objectives, presented on the lean software development principles and practices and how they can benefit to Agile practitioners during Agile 2008. For those of you that weren’t able to attend (like me) the video is definitely worth watching.

This slide deck is very interesting as it shows the different tools that were used in 2008 for learning. There are a variety of tools that I use and some that I don’t right now but I’m definitely going to be checking them out.

Some of you use Twitter but do you use Twellow as well? Twellow pulls your updates from Twitter and posts them in the categories you select. You can get listed in 10 different categories.

If you want to connect with people who have experience and expertise in your areas of interest then this is the place to go.

In every company/project the question always comes up on what the ratio should be. As we all know the ratio almost never comes out right but if you want info on how to estimate the ratio check this white paper out.

Estimating Tester to Developer Ratios (or Not)

Would you like to own your own advertisement network, which will grow every day, where you can publish your own ads, affiliations, links etc… for Free?

I found this great site today that allows me to do just that. All I did was signup and post my banner. Sit back and watch the hits come through.

Ever wonder what the search engines see when they come to your site? Do you have the correct headers set up? If you run the domain name through this tool, you will see what a search engine sees when they visit a web page (along with the pages headers).

These tips can make the difference between good and no results when submitting to online classifieds.

1. Short is better
Your goal should only be to get the potential client to your website for more information. Keep it short and sweet in the ad

This is a great tool for finding out what your customers are searching for. This can play a tremendous role in search engine optimization and advertising campaigns. You can bookmark this page, type in a term you are thinking of and the tool will show you how many times that word has been searched as well as other words that are like it.

How many times have you searched for hours on an error but couldn’t find an answer. I stumbled upon a very cool site called bug.gd today that I thought I’d share with everyone else.

The site’s goal is “No one should ever have to solve an error that someone else already solved”. I think that is a great goal.

Amazing facts about our period of history. This is a video from SonyBMG Rome 2008, very cool information.