Ten things I’ve learned as a developer at WooMe:
Be clear what your direction is. Identify your key proposition and focus on it. Don’t get distracted by unrelated features — somebody else is probably already doing those better than you.
Be merciless with features that don’t cut it. No matter how much you like it, if your audience doesn’t …
About 10 days ago we had our internet connection activated at Awesome Manor. It’s Be Internet’s (up to) 24Mb all-you-can eat buffet package.
Problems, naturally, began immediately. During the normal period of line testing that the ADSL2+ products use to determine the maximum stable rate of the line, we saw massive instability and fluctuating speeds from …
A couple of days ago I wrote an opinion piece on why I feel that being forced to duplicate existing software projects due to an antiquated and limited infrastructure is a large part of the reason the BBC is falling far behind the rest of the industry in its internet offerings.
To put this in context, …
Perl on Rails is a project by the smart chaps over in BBC Audio and Music Interactive that replicates the Ruby On Rails MVC framework in Perl. They’re obviously rather proud of themselves, and I understand that internally the project is making waves. Whilst I applaud the technical achievement of the individual developers, I deplore …