The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

The cost of IT is often confused with its value. Consider earned value management : delivery, time and cost are combined in an attempt to better represent project performance. This might show the rate of cash burn to total expected effort by a development team, but it isn’t an indicator of value as the name might imply. This is simply another way to present cost.

Government 40

Government Energy Technology Technology 40

Tim Kadlec

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

After having been signed up to attend since early October, it just dawned on me yesterday that I only have one full “work week” left until SXSW. This will be my first major web conference, and to say I am excited about going is a vast understatement. I believe my wife is probably looking forward to it as much as I am, if only for the fact that once it is over she no longer has to hear every little update from me about panel programming and new social events.

Programming 40

Programming Tuning Design Network 40

Tim Kadlec

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Welcome to the second part of my look at XPath and how it can be used in Javascript. Part one served as a real basic introduction to what XPath is, how it can traverse the document tree, and an introduction to using XPath expressions in Javascript using the evaluate method. So far what we have seen is really basic. There is some value in it, but we can build much more robust expressions with a bit more knowledge.

Code 40

Code Testing Development 40

Tim Kadlec

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

As reported by John Resig , Prototype, Dojo, and Mootools have all switched their CSS Selector engines to be using XPath expressions instead of traditional DOM methods. With the attention being placed on XPath expressions, now is a good time to get familiarized with them and what they can accomplish. This is going to be a multi-post series, as there is just so much you can accomplish by using XPath expressions that if I tried putting it into one post, no one would have the time to sit and read t

Efficiency 40

Efficiency Code Servers Engineering 40

Tim Kadlec

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Originally, it was never going to get this complex. The internet was never meant to be this popular. However, as time has gone by and this wonderful beast of resource has evolved, it is becoming important to be able to provide our content to a wide variety of devices. In addition to simply viewing a site on a computer screen, or printing it, our information may be accessed by Braille feedback devices, speech synthesizers, handheld devices, etc.

Media 40

Media Internet Internet Design 40

Tim Kadlec

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

When coding and designing there are a lot of steps and techniques that may seem trivial and appear to have little importance in the grand scheme of things. Does it really matter if we are using meaningful names for our variables in our code, or for our CSS id’s and classes? Who really cares if we use deprecated elements in our X/HTML so long as browser recognize them?

Games 40

Games Programming Design Efficiency 40