Compare and contrast two blog entries that popped up in my RSS reader on the same day last week. In the blue corner Joel O’Software, fighting for private offices. And in the red corner, Martin Fowler, battling it out for continuous collaboration between developers and their customers. Naturally, they’re not really at opposite ends of … Continue reading
One of the problems with agile development is that it’s subject to changes, so means you’re in danger of changing it into something which isn’t agile. How do you know when you’ve gone too far? This isn’t a problem for seasoned agile practitioners, but it’s a concern if you’re just starting out, or working with … Continue reading
My colleague Paul has just returned from New York with others from the team, and has pictures from the Webby award ceremony. Paul also made the five word speech on behalf of GU: “Our Webby 2.0″. Update: There’s a very short video, too.
Here’s my contribution to Brad Appleton’s stimulating conversation-piece on simplicity. I’ve produced a number of short soundbites to help understand simplicity, and backed some of them up with concrete examples of how Guardian Unlimited handles its articles. Brad makes it clear that simplicity is a confusing and often contractory topic. But he’s written his article … Continue reading
For the last year or so within the Guardian Unlimited technical team there’s been a continual low-level question being debated: what technology should we use to build GUI tools for our editors, and in particular should Ajax play a part? It’s a debate in which a technology manager has a rather different perspective from that … Continue reading
Technical people don’t tend to like a big bang release, but it’s often perceived as the only viable option when you launch a new service. Why is this, and is there any kind of middle ground? The recent redesign of Telegraph.co.uk is a useful way to look at this. I’m also going to use examples … Continue reading
How great to be able to make this the first post of this new blog. Guardian Unlimited has won a 2006 Webby — winners of the Newspaper category. We were nominated with illustrious names from world of US print, and it’s great to see our name among theirs. This is the second year we’ve won … Continue reading
