Monday, 7 November 2011

Estimation on software projects can by tough

#Drupal experts Lulabot are sharing their thoughts and workflows (and even a budgeting spreadsheet!)


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The Art of Estimation | Lullabot
Two Truths About Estimation. The first truth about large software projects is that it's nearly impossible to provide an accurate estimate at the outset. A modern web site is a collection of small ...

Awesome :)

Awesome :)

Reshared post from +Michelle Marie
#MusicMonday Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix
Sounds produced from a scanner, floppy drive innards, and old Atari & TI computers.

Saturday, 5 November 2011

Check the link in the original post for massive amount of imagery providing the base...

Check the link in the original post for massive amount of imagery providing the base of the question :)

See also http://thehairpin.com/2011/01/women-laughing-alone-with-salad :)

Reshared post from +Mike Elgan
Why do women struggle with drinking water?

Careful research into stock photos reveals that women can't drink water out of a bottle without spilling it all over, for some reason.

http://thehairpin.com/2011/11/women-struggling-to-drink-water

Props to +Fraser Smith

if you have fear of #Drupal here is a tutorial for beginners :)

if you have fear of #Drupal here is a tutorial for beginners :)


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Build a job listings website with Drupal | Tutorial | .net magazine
Its learning curve is notorious but Tim Millwood argues that Drupal is not that fearsome, and demonstrates how you can use it to build a job board

Have you noticed a change in your search results? Google has been making some changes......

Have you noticed a change in your search results? Google has been making some changes... http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/giving-you-fresher-more-recent-search.html

Reshared post from +Danny Sullivan
Terrible accident on the M5 motorway in England, which I used to drive on often. I was curious how Google's new "fresh" algorithm handled this. In the US, not at all -- nothing fresh makes in into the regular listings, only a news unit shows that's not impacted by the new change. On the UK side, five out of 10 listings are news content. Good, though hard to tell if this is much different than in the past, as news content would still have done well. Does feel a bit more. But downside, the Daily Mirror gets listed twice. Why? They wrote a story, then reposted it again best I can tell about 1 minute later -- and perhaps with a cloaked title. Handy way some publishers have pushed to keep ranking as "fresh" in Google News. Not going to be pretty if it starts working for Google web search.

Friday, 4 November 2011

Agreed :)

#WebDevelopment #UI


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10 ways to screw up a web form and piss me off
Today I complained (on Google+) about web forms where you have to re-enter your email address. I always feel insulted when sites ask me that. As if I can't be trusted to know my own ...

Ok Google, I see what you did there with the YouTube integration and see you also...

Ok Google, I see what you did there with the YouTube integration and see you also show "YouTube playlist" buttons in shared videos as well. Very nice. Now how about opening up and allowing third-parties to integrate their own services in the share functionality? I seem to remember you could do that on Google Wave... :)