Development Practices

Agilistas are to archtects as Neo is to... — This is not The Matrix. But it is QCon 2009 Agile development practices may be growing in popularity among developers, but agilistas aren't getting much love from software architects.…... [Tags: agile development, developers, development practices, matrix, much love]

Marriott: Corporate Blog is Worth $5 Million — How much might blogging be worth for your company? For one of the blogs that we recently named to our list of 15 companies that really get corporate blogging, the answer is $5 million in extra revenue each year. As we noted a couple of weeks ago, most company blogs, especially those at larger corporations are failures: they rehash press releases, they’re written without any character, and they utterly fail to engage their user community. That’s a shame, because corporate blogging is an amazing way to speak directly with you customers and users. In fact, in July, we made starting... [Tags: 37signals, 5 million, blog, bloggers, blogs]

Opera, the company behind the browser of the same name, is trying out a new way to help drive web standards: teaching. The browser is known for rendering web pages under strict adherence to established web standards. Now the company is releasing an online course, or Opera Web Standards Curriculum, to help teach budding website developers those standards right from the start. The site and curriculum, released in association with the Yahoo! Developer Network, covers basic subjects such as HTML, CSS and design theory. The course authors are all established web developing professionals within industry, and their course material helps... [Tags: browser types, commercial purposes, course authors, course material, creative commons license]