Words From a Purple Mind

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.

There are lots of places to list our site these days. Are you posting to the right ones? Do you know the various sites to get listed on?

On 10/28/2008 I attended the 1st annual MindSurf Conference, which had various sessions for Business Analysis, Project Management and more. The sessions I thought that stood above the rest were:

• So Who Does What Anyway? Sorting out Business Analysis and Project Management
• Enterprise Analysis: Finding the Heart and Head of the Organization

There are instances where you want to convert HTML/JavaScript source. Some people use AJAX, ASPX or other types of code to do “includes”.

I normally build my include page in html first to make sure I like the look of it then I put it in a page that converts it for inclusion.