Jim Roberts's Blog – December 2010 Archive (4)

One thing that experience has taught me is that it takes a village to raise a software product. What I mean by that is a developer and all of their team members including management have to be focused on

quality...quality of product, quality of training, quality of process

and quality of work life. They all have to share the same passion and

excitement. They…

The Full Article From : The Happy Developer

The first incarnation of the web was composed of static websites that linked to each other and search engines to help you find sites of interest. Web 2.0 brought a social element to the web, with users sharing, commenting, and interacting through sites such as YouTube, Facebook, and Flickr. The future web, the "semantic…

To get proficient at anything you need to always be learning. You can never get complacent. Software development is no different. Recently, I felt the urge to continue my knowledge of web services and Windows Communication Foundation. Web services is such a big thing these days and has been for awhile with the continued excitement over Service Oriented Architecture…

Higher education is a lot like any other industry in the sense that colleges want to bring "customers" in to their institution. They want to create brand awareness. They want to separate themselves from their competition. They want to show prospective students why their institution is the one they should choose.



In the past, the higher education "industry" was known as lagging behind other industries as far as the use of leading edge technology but no more. Today, colleges are…