Monthly Archives: July 2007
Addressing Concerns with MOSS and Compliance
I was pleased to read about AccRepair, a product by New Hampshire-based HiSoftware. SharePoint 2007 is a powerful tool, but I am forever interested in adhering to standards and in compliance issues, 508-related and other. Because there is so much … Continue reading
SEO Basics Part II – MIT Technical, Boston
SEO is about content and utility. That is the number one lesson that I have learned, through years of hoping that is was about something cool or intensely technical. I would like to be able to say that there is … Continue reading
SEO Basics Part I – MIT Technical, Boston
A search engine “sees” your site by sending out bots (Google calls theirs Googlebot) to index and make note of the HTML pages composing the totality of the public internet. Google indexes billions and billions of pages. For every page … Continue reading
Shift Happens, I guess.
There is a presentation called “Shift Happens” that I find somewhat troublesome. I think I find it troublesome because a few people around me are reacting as though they just watched an Al Gore film and can never see the … Continue reading
Risk Management Template – Based on MSF Template
The template is formatted nicely for you in the link at the end of this post. I also want to state, nice and early, that this template is adopted from a MSF document. It has proven itself a nice risk … Continue reading
Quick and Dirty Software Testing Without a Formal Testing Plan
I like building Test Cases from Use Cases. I do it for fun, sometimes. Last week however, we were presented with a sudden deadline. We had no forewarning. We were not prepared. The project was dormant for a long time, … Continue reading
Hiring SEO Specialists
I am working full-time right now, and do most of my consulting during the off-hours. It works fine for clients that I have standing relationships with and a good number of others as well, but I am just far too … Continue reading
Small Social Bookmarking Update
A small update to the blog: I got rid of the clunky DIGG button and instead am using what appears to be a pretty slick WP plugin called “Social Bookmarking Reloaded“. I can choose which sites I want represented on … Continue reading
Portals: Requirements Definition and Plain Old Definition
I have worked on several “portal” projects in my career. Here is a list of the ones that I can think of right now, at the end of a very busy week: 1. A portal to allow Union members to … Continue reading
A Victory for "Barely Good Enough" Use Cases
I have been struggling lately. It is a private battle, and I don’t think that it shows. I am consulting part time with a team of Project Managers that is used to writing Use Cases that read like miniature novels, … Continue reading