Archives for August 2007

What is Extreme Programming (XP)?

The other day, I was asked for the “elevator pitch” on XP, so I dug out this description from an old posting on another of my sites.

It’s taking best practices to the extreme… Continue Reading »

Web Hosting Now Available Here

By popular request, Maxim Software Corp. now offers website hosting service to the public. The same servers that we use to host the properties of our ThotSpots Web Media division are now available to you at competitive prices. This service is being offered as a convenience to our consulting clients who seek one-stop-shopping, but is not required. As always, our software developers and website administrators will be happy to work with any website project, regardless of where it is hosted. For more information, write to info@maximsc.com.

Top 5 Ways to Keep a Software Development Project On Track

If the three most important attributes in real estate are location, location, location, then the five most important attributes of good project management are communication, communication, communication, communication, communication.

1. Maintain a written glossary of domain terminology. It’s amazing how often the developers and the customers think they’re talking the same language, but they’re not. Misunderstandings like this are a common source of “assumption errors,” which are a leading cause of wasted effort. Continue Reading »

This Blog is Now Registered on Technorati

This is just a quick post to indicate that this blog is now registered on Technorati.

Programming Tips on CodeJacked.com

The Maxim Software staff runs codejacked.com, a blog with productivity tips for Windows and Linux users. The tips are mostly in “power user” territory, but sometimes we can’t help but cover topics of more interest to programmers. So, for those of you who are programmers, be sure to keep an eye on the CodeJacked programming category (www.codejacked.com/category/programming/), or even easier, just sign up for the whole CodeJacked RSS feed.

Here are just a few of the recent articles in the programming category, to give you and idea of what you’ll find there:
Version Control - A Developer’s Best Friend,
RegEx Pattern Matching on Dates,
Automatic Daily MySQL Backups,
Review: SQuirreL, an Agnostic SQL Client, and
Quick Tip: Searching for Program Source Code.



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