Rich Buggy

...Developer, CTO, Entrepreneur

March, 2008

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Web 2.0 in 14 days – Day 0

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

I read a number of blogs about micro ISV’s and there are lot of people taking on “Zero to MicroISV in X days” projects. The general concept is simple, take a limited budget (less than $50), a limited time frame (7 to 21 days) and build a micro ISV that makes a small profit. Due to restrictions with my current employment I can’t setup a business but that shouldn’t prevent me from undertaking a modified version of the challenge.

So here it is, in 14 days I want to build a Web 2.0 site that can grow to 10,000 users in a year. It all starts here tomorrow…

QA Driven Development

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Today I heard the phrase QA Driven Development. This is the opposite of test driven development where developers get code off to QA before it is fully tested so that QA can report bugs, missing features and other deviations from the original specs.

Better code, less effort

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

I’m talking at this months Sydney PHP Group. The topic will be “Better code, less effort” where I’ll be discussing using MVC, DAO & CRUD to help you write better code in less time. It will also cover adding some bling with AJAX auto-completes and lookups, and search pages. If time permits I’ll also cover wizards.