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Aug 30, 2006

Why Is The Web Quantitative?

Metrics, numbers, hits, page views and clicks are what we seek! Especially when we are trying to measure the success of a website. The statistics have become a craze in the blogosphere. [Continue]

Aug 23, 2006

IT ROI Measurement Still In Incubancy

CIOInsight has revealed the bitter truth (via InfoQ) about Return On Investment (ROI) for IT projects. IT and business executives overwhelmingly agree: Their companies receive business value from their IT investments. But how much value, and what kind of value, is as clear as mud. [Continue]

Aug 13, 2006

Treat Your Customer As A Business

This is an attempt at making requirements elicitation more efficient and to help get the bigger picture. Software, whether it is explicitly said or not, makes an impact on the business it is being used in. Value of the software is driven by that magic number provided by the Return On Investment (ROI). [Continue]

Aug 1, 2006

A Good Developer

Martin Fowler at ThoughtWorks says: When someone is looking at what makes up a top-class enterprise software developer, often the conversation may turn to knowledge of frameworks and languages, or perhaps the ability to understand complicated algorithms and data structures. For me, one of the most important traits in a programmer, or indeed in a development team, is something that I’ll call Customer Affinity. This is the interest and closeness that the developers have in the business problem that the software is addressing, and in the people who live in that business world. [Continue]

Jul 29, 2006

Web, JavaScript And Security

JavaScript is now main stream, thanks to the popularity and extensive acceptance of AJAX. In fact, AJAX is considered to be a core part of Web 2.0. Acceptance of a technology by the industry has been a subject of its scanning under the security microscope, which has caused delays in accepting new things. [Continue]

Jul 22, 2006

Software Development Is Like Running A Restaurant

Software development is alien to a lot of people and explaining it in technical terms really makes it worse. So, we use metaphors. Lidor Wyssocky says it is like a broken telephone. [Continue]

Jul 20, 2006

Interview With Usability Guru

Usability guru Jakob Nielsen was interviewed (via Ajaxian) on usability and its relation to advertising. One of the things that come out of it are the applications of AJAX. It’s important to remember that most web sites are not used repeatedly. [Continue]

Jun 22, 2006

Adaptive Websites - The Future Of Web

Web 2.0 has ushered in a new era of democratic usage of the Web. It is more focused on the user than its earlier version. This has pushed much more information, in many more formats, on the Web. [Continue]

Jun 12, 2006

Is Internet Fueling Collectivism?

An amazing essay by Jaron Lanier about Digital Maoism delves into the behavior of collectivism and whether the Internet Age is fueling it. However, the core subject is much deeper than the digital world encouraging mob madness. It is about whether we can benefit from groupism and Wisdom of Crowds, and if so when. [Continue]

May 4, 2006

Web Publishing A Headache For Newspapers

Lot of newspapers have started publishing news online in addition to their print versions. Especially after reports of plummeting revenues for print-only newspapers, online news has seen frantic activity. The customization and personalization that the online medium offers is tempting and usable for the news readers. [Continue]