A Million Things Happening and No Time to Write…
The last three months have been a whirlwind of activity here at Imp Designs. All this activity will peak in the next few weeks with multiple website launches.In January I set a goal for myself to write at least one blog entry per month. I’ve failed miserably on that goal… honestly I don’t know how Veerle does it. The excuse I’m going to fall back on is how busy we’ve been. Over the next few weeks we’ll be launching websites for a wide variety of businesses and organizations; a printer repair business, a real estate office, an international organization that coordinates study abroad programs, a restaurant, and a 2-cycle motor oil manufacturer to name a few. In addition to these sites we’re also finishing up a couple special projects: an online custom order entry system and an online job posting/resume posting system.
All these projects have challenged our communications skills and have pushed me to find more effective ways to coordinate the work. We’ve made a couple internal changes to how we approach development, most notably we now place all new development work in Subversion. With the amazingly wonderful service at SVN Repository, we can utilize Trac to document the progress of our projects and, when applicable, give our clients access to a ticketing system. For overall strategy and planning of our projects, we’ve discovered Basecamp. Developed by the people that created Ruby on Rails (another blog entry on THAT is forthcoming!), this amazing little web app allows a group of people to collaborate and communicate on a project. If you’ve never seen Basecamp, you should click on the link above and check it out.
Well that’s enough for now. I’m a “glass half full” guy, so I’m sure I’ll get another entry in soon!