Using Roleplay to Prepare Design Managers

Every so often, a designer gets promoted. If you are lucky, they are someone you have personally trained and developed. Congratulations! You now have a newly-minted design manager on your team. As a new manager, their relationship with the team will most likely change. They are now in charge of delegating design tasks, performance reviews, […]

Cloud Computing's Connection With Software-Defined Networking

Software-defined networking is a technology every bit as vital to the further adoption of cloud computing as virtualization. Over the past year or so, cloud computing’s meteoric growth has run into a rather sizable roadblock. I’m speaking, of course, about bandwidth. Source: Web Hosting Articles

Rachel Andrew on the Business of Web Dev: Offering Feedback

Over at Perch we develop the product based on customer feedback. Our method of ordering features is to add the things that will make the most difference to the most people. We gather feedback from our interactions with customers (primarily this happens in our support forums) and try to shape a feature from the specific […]

This week's sponsor: Acuity Scheduling

Spending more time scheduling than actually meeting with clients? Sponsor Acuity Scheduling is your website’s favorite way to schedule calls, appointments, and hangouts…without pulling your pixels out. Source: A List Apart: The Full Feed