Business Development • Lionite • Web development
July 30th, 2009
Saying there is a lot of variation in the field of web development would be a huge understatement. You have everything from anonymous freelancers to large known firms, several hundred dollar budgets to several hundred thousand dollar budgets (and more).
How much does it cost to build a website? what does building a website entails? there are no universal answers to those questions.
Client: "Enough talking, let's get down to business. What will 50$ get me?"
Brad: * looks at wrist watch *
Brad: "About 5 more minutes of my time."
Brad Colbow on Time
In fact, there is so much variation, that a recent client told us post-project completion that when he was shopping around for offers from various firms, he got offers between 2000$ and 60,000$. That's a factor of 30 between offers!
He picked us since we conveyed the best value (quality / price) of all offers, even though he had much cheaper offers (we were about midway in the range). All things being equal, all he had was his gut-feeling and our resume to guide him. That is, if we didn't engage in client development.
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Web development • techfounder
July 22nd, 2009
Some casual surfing led me to this article from a couple of years ago, titled "How to recognize a good programmer". It was a nice read, but as many in the comments pointed out, the criteria the author set forth most likely describe himself and are not really useful as rules-of-thumb on how to recognize a good programmer.
It got me thinking though, on what are the attributes I consider useful in fellow programmers. So what makes a good programmer?
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Lionite • Web development
July 3rd, 2009
Specifications are an integral part of any web project (or any software project for that matter). Writing good specifications will improve the probability of success for a given project by a great deal.
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MySQL • PHP • Web development
May 14th, 2009
Multiple row operations are in common use in a normalized application databases as one database entity is often linked to multiple sub-entities (for example a user and his tags). By row operations I'm referring to write queries, namely UPDATE and INSERT queries (DELETE is less interesting so I'll leave it out for now).
Too often I've seen such queries ran in long loops one at a time, which is very bad for performance (as I will show here) and sometimes equally bad for integrity (if the process is interrupted). So what are the alternatives?
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Business Development • Lionite
May 6th, 2009
The web as a commercial venue has changed and evolved much in the relatively short time since its inception. As the medium and technology evolved, more and more "real-world" business models became viable for web products.
Despite this, the application of those business models in the web arena is still very much experimental, and it's often hard for web businesses to find and implement a model that works well for them.
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