Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

Minor Delays

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Last week’s post got eaten.  Its been promised for, what, three weeks now?  Well, it’s being revised into a series of articles on project management.  Plus, we wanted to hold off for another week to account for the new WordPress release.

Oh, right.  We’re also experimenting with Twitter.  And Facebook. (more…)

Finally, Visual Schedules

Monday, April 20th, 2009

It’s not a Gantt chart, but it should be close enough for a lot of people.

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Under the Hood

Monday, March 30th, 2009

I’m a believer in “credit where credit is due.” I’m also a non-believer in proprietary information. So, while we’re not releasing eManagr’s source code, I’d very much like to show off the technologies we’re using to make eManagr do its job, particularly since the overwhelming majority of tools are Open Source and are worthy of support. Apologies in advance to the non-technical.
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How Big Is That Flash?

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

We interrupt this blog with a quick technical discussion.

As people start using eManagr, we obviously worry that features seeming obvious in design are, in fact, weird and confusing. So, in the walkthrough, we’ll soon add Flash video for each step.

Problem: I have a special hatred of arbitrary numbers in markup, and if you don’t tell your browser about the video, it…apparently picks a height and width out of a hat. Fun, eh?
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