Tyrone Howard: Project Manager Extraordinaire
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Tyrone "Ty" Howard, president of BizNova Consulting and a Computerworld 40 Under 40, previously led the IT project management office for the city of Chandler, Ariz.
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Perspectives from Berkshire's behind-the-scenes man.
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Globalization does strange things to people. A day in the life of a Manila Philippines based business consultant - proving that you really CAN talk about Muddy Walters, bluegrass and work all on the same page...
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Today, Pierre-Alain Joye has fomally announced his "retirement" from working with the PEAR project as a lead developer. He's making a shift to work mainly towards other graphics/imaging work he's been developing and to continue work with his current extensions (and a few new ones on the way).   I spoke with him on some of the things that had lead up to making this decision and he mentioned it as a two-fold reason: one was some personal conflict between other PEAR developers and himself and the other an issue of time and interest in the project. He still wants to see it succeed, but just doesn't see the time in his life right now to do his part. Pierre will continue to work with the PECL extensions and on the PHP internals groups to help improve and develope them towards future versions. Some of the extensions he lists as the ones currently in his development are things like GD, xmlwriter, Zip (of course), and filter.   It is just a normal process, things and people change. I would have preferred a slower switch, as I was working on my leave (giving lead for many of my packages to other friends).   Pierre's PEAR work can be seen on this page of his blog and includes all of his PEAR and PECL work as well as PHP internals and Pimp/Cairo/GD development work.   You can also check out the decision in his own words over on his blog.
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David Wheeler presents an introduction to the Bricolage content management system (CMS).
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Stuart Herbert has posted about an opening with the company he works for in the UK that's looking for developers/managers/etc to help fill out their new expansion:   We're expanding the team in our Cardiff city-centre office (right in the heart of Europe's youngest capital city). We're looking for exceptional people with a proven track record in designing, delivering, and managing web-based solutions to large organisations. If you're a project manager, software developer, web site designer with XSL experience, or a systems administrator, maybe we have the right opportunity for your next role.   You can get all of the details about the company from from their website.
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As much as I know we need a project management system to build the Geek Ranch I will leave that discussion for another day. But, my current experience illustrates a case when project management software doesn't solve the problems. The first building we are going to construct is what I will call read more
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Management's predictions turn out to be right on target.
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Bigger and better projects are being announced with amazing regularity!
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Very useful framework library, contains many frequent used code snippets, algorithms, data structures, WinForms & APS.NET controls for all-day work.   Approwed first public version of Axe framework as a result of individual two year developer practice.
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The Zend Developer Zone has posted their latest episode of the PHP Abstract podcast hosted by Cal Evans himself covering ways you can attract quality talent to your organization.   Along the way I've picked up a few truths, mainly stolen from people like Joel Spolsky. Some of these ideas can be found in an article I wrote a while ago titled "Nerd Herding", a link to which can be found in the show notes. Recently, I've had many people ask me variations of the same question, "How do I find talented programmers?" So today, I'm going to share with you some of the things I've learned.   The latest show is available for direct download or, as always, you can subscribe to their feed to get this and lots of other great shows.
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Adobe's newest addition to the Photoshop family is a workflow manager for professional photogs, Flickr-heads and camera nerds of all stripes. By Scott Gilbertson.
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In a new post to his blog today, Stuart Herbert continues the theme he started in a previous post about a business case for PHP. In this new entry, he shares some things he's done to further the effort.   To turn this from an idea into reality, I've setup a Google group where anyone who is interested can join in, and help build this resource. Please come along with your ideas and concerns, and let's see what we can achieve together.   He also suggests some "first steps" to get the ball rolling, namely a list of topics the business case needs to cover.
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Memo to a headhunter: Find us some wise, experienced workers looking for new challenge.  . .
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An interview with development-stage drugmaker Pharmacopeia.
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In this new post to his blog, Richard Heyes talks about an example he's come across of PHP being used as backend behind a large marketing project:    I recently read an interesting example at Neil Shearing's internet marketing strategies blog of combining .NET desktop software with a PHP backend.   We all know PHP is often slated by "real programmers" as a scripting language only useful for kiddie's home pages, and its nice to see a serious marketer choosing PHP to power the backend to a serious piece of viral software with the potential to go load-mad.    Richard also points out some of his experience trying to market his software and which of his customers are the ones that would provide the most return (the ones looking for updates) and how he can gather their information more productively to further his project's goals.
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By Parry, David  Building 21st Century mega-projects will require 21st Century project management techniques and tools.