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I posted previously about undergoing a review of your true product strengths . But what if you realize there isn’t as much overlap between customer usage/demand and your product? You have to start over and try to redefine what your product strengths ...read more

When configuring our Selenium tests to run out build server, one issue I ran into is that there wasn’t a lot out there in terms of how to get this set up. A few people had posted about having done it, but not how they did it. Overall, it isn’t ...read more

Recently, I’ve been working on migrating our build process at Telligent from using Cruise Control .NET to use JetBrain’s Team City. Cruise Control has served us well, but after looking at the feature set of Team City, it had a number of things ...read more

Every step a user must take provides a chance for failure and frustration. Compare these two shipping confirmation emails from 1-800-Flowers and Zappos. 1-800-Flowers Zappos   1-800-Flowers actually says, “2 easy steps”. However, what they are not ...read more

Chad Fowler’s, " Passionate Programmer "[1] is a definite must read for any developer who gives a damn about his or her career. I had heard about Passionate Programmer before but didn't it give it much thought until after hearing Joe O'Brien ...read more

Because it is.  If you write sloppy work items and specifications why would your developers write good code?  Bad bug reports… these are fixes with regressions that are just waiting to be found.  Poor requirements… these are just bad implementations ...read more

Someone recently asked me how I created the Telligent Community 5.0 demo video that you can watch here .  The thing that made this the easiest was TechSmith’s Camtasia Studio product .  Using their fine software as a base I was able to use the ...read more

I have tried a variety of tools for reading my Google Reader feeds on my iPhone. Google’s mobile browser – works well, but requires a constant connection and little third party tool integration Feeds – likely the most disappointing app I have ever purchased ...read more

A very interesting announcement by the folks at MySpace : Today, we are open-sourcing Qizmt, an internally developed framework for distributed computation created by the Data Mining team here at MySpace. Qizmt can be used for many operations that ...read more

Apparently the iPhone club ran out of cool people to "tag" in their little discussion about what pages they browse to most frequently on their expensive phones. Well, since my phone has had an SDK for a lot longer than theirs I'm going to ...read more

I've published an alpha release of a Windows Live Writer plugin that makes it easy to pull multiple RSS or Atom feed items into a blog post. Let me know what you think. The download link is here: http://evolvingwe.com/files/FeedInserterAlpha ...read more

I was pushing for this release when I was at Microsoft and while I can't explain what took so long I'm just happy that the code has finally been released. Building a Rich Text Editor control is not for the faint of heart, but now you have a starting ...read more

No, not that switch yet, although seeing ScottW get a 5.1 on the Vista experience score on his Macbook Pro sure makes it tempting. I've finally given up on IE 7 as a default web browser in Vista. For some reason it crashes constantly on me. At ...read more

But today I realized that taking it offline means that it will only sync recently updated feeds. I was hoping to use my flight from Dallas to Seattle to read some items that have been sitting in there for a while, but it only seems to like syncing recent ...read more