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My experience with JavaScript has lead me to using Ajax frameworks and libraries such as Mootools, ExtJs, and now jQuery. The jQuery library has been around long enough to become stable, fast, and lightweight for dealing with those annoying problems all web application developers have to handle. The core competency of jQuery is it’s ability to [...]
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A work in progress visualization of freedb (RDF version of wikipedia).
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Working as both a Developer and as a ScrumMaster has skewed my perspective a bit to be dev-team centric, so I recently took SolutionsIQ’s Certified Product Owner course to learn more about the scrum software development process through the eyes of a Product Owner. The course was laid out in a novel way – as a [...]
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That was the biggest take away I got when recently reading “Powerful Project Leadership” by Wayne Strider. As I’ve been taking on some more Project Leadership responsibilities, I wanted to read some material that focused more on Project Leadership than simply Project Management, and this book came highly recommended. After sifting through some of the more [...]
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One of the strategies we’ve talked about in terms of handling our growth and the ebbs and flows of project work is outsourcing.  Like many software development firms, we’re no strangers to outsourcing in its generic sense—we contract with a few very talented people from time to time when we need specialty talent that we [...]
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