Web Projects that Succeed
When you plan for features instead of planning for change, you are planning to fail.
No one has ever come to us with a project they started with some other developer that failed in the Planning Stage. During planning, everyone is excited, and the developer can say "yes" to every request. However, decisions made in a pre-work Planning Stage are always based on limited information and unrevealed assumptions.
This is what causes project to fail in the Execution Stage. The clients disengage, and naively expect that all their hopes and dreams will magically come true without any intervention on their part. Only when the developer comes back with a disappointing delivery many weeks or months later does the client realize that the two were never speaking the same language. read more »
Tips for planning your Web Project
We hear from a lot of people who know that they need to get their communications, processes, and data online, but they don't know where to go from there. Here's some advice on how to plan for your project, and how to find a Web Developer who can meet your needs. read more »
Updating to Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu
Apparently people are having difficulty updating to Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu for all users, since it's not yet in the official Ubuntu repositories.
Here's an easy way to do it with a few commands, although I can't guarantee this will be compatible with future repository based updates. But it won't break anything. read more »
Sponsoring DrupalCamp LA 2009
Ninjitsu Web Development is proud to be a sponsor of DrupalCamp LA 2009.
Drupal vs. The World
Idealware, an independent non-profit, has published a comparison of Drupal to three of the other most popular Open Source Content Management Systems. Despite a few inaccuracies regarding security and workflows, the report is very helpful, and accurately describes many of Drupal's strengths, including it's superiority in the realm of flexibility and extensibility. read more »
