I have been browsing through Google’s various blogs to learn more about how might leverage their tools for our clients. Will has me sold on Google App Engine – a development solution that frees up people to simply innovate without requiring them raise capital. In my reading, and in my day to day perusal of [...]

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Some of the strengths I look for in software developers are openness and flexibility. Openness to ideas that can improve development outcomes, and flexibility in terms of being able to fit into any development process, be it Agile, Extreme, Waterfall, Rational, Scrum, or a process that has been tailored to a specific business situation.. When [...]

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When I first made the transition from playing music professionally to the corporate world, it was with the specific goal of helping people work together through the Web. The skill sets I had from music were not unlike engineering – and I had a long history with computers dating from seventh grade, when I began [...]

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I have a new metaphor for certain religious zealots in the category of separation of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, sometimes called Unobtrusive Javascripting amongst other names. Have you ever noticed little kids who start screaming at the top of their lungs when their peas touch their carrots on the plate. I actually have a son [...]

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One of the goals we’ve had for a long time – and one that its been alternately fun and tough to see Will actually push towards – is the idea of having an idea on Sunday, and delivering a fully featured version by Friday. We’ve been doing this on a small scale for some time, [...]

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This post inspired by chatting with @myweekendapp on Twitter about Ruby. His conversation piqued my interest because I remember when we first dove into Ruby a couple of years ago, so I am sharing the way we developed mastery of the language. When we set out to tackle Ruby on Rails we..and Will in particular [...]

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http://demos.dojotoolkit.org/demos/cropper/

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Will, in classic Will-fashion, has been methodically developing deep knowledge and expertise in the Dojo.js. O’Reilly books purchased and read, flashcards created in YoYoBrain, Dojo implemented in YoYoBrain and in fact has replaced a great many of our Scriptaculous based UI elements. Now we are spec’ing a very cool Dojo.js based widget. Similar to techniques [...]

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Just launched my personal Posterous blog for hobbies and kid-related stuff. Crazy how easy it is to get started. Worth examining their process just to see a state of the art sign up process and UI. You can check me out here scottilevy.posterous.com .

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