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Cal Evans' Blog: Six ways to be a better client for your developer - Point 4

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:31:52 -0600

Cal Evans is back with the latest part of his "Be a Better Client" series of posts focusing on how the person asking for the work to be done can interface with those doing the work more effectively. This time his recommendation is about deadlines.

Regardless of whether it is a large or small project, don't set one final deadline, set regular milestones. If it' a week-long project, figure out what will be delivered each day and set daily milestones. Larger projects will have them spaced out more but either way, make sure that you have them at regular intervals and that all major deliverables are assigned a milestone.

He points out that a single deadline only does one thing - lets the project know when to be done. It shows absolutely no progress along the way. Milestones are much more effective at this.

Make sure your developer is reporting back to you on a regular basis. At the very least you should have a status meeting at each milestone to make sure it was hit. For larger projects you will need meetings between the milestones to make sure the project stays on track.

NETTUTS.com: 10 Biggest Milestones in Web Development

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:15:25 -0600

NETTUTS.com has posted their top ten list of some of the largest milestones in web development - one of which is the release of PHP.

Some believe the progression of the great World Wide Web to be a travesty, others a godsend. Regardless, the Internet has evolved over the past few decades, and is in many ways better for the web developer. New technologies have come about that have made web development much easier to get started in, and ultimately more fun.

Here's a few from their list:

Linus Torvalds Creates the Linux Kernel
The Open Source Movement Officially Starts
PayPal is Founded
Firefox is Released
and, of course, PHP is Released by Rasmus Lerdorf

Max Horvath's Blog: Eclipse PDT 2.0 release postponed

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:17:29 -0500

For the Eclipse PHP developers out there anxiously awaiting the next major release of the extension, you'll have to wait just a bit longer. Max Horvath mentions a few of the reasons why:

As expected by many, Eclipse PDT's next major release has been postponed. While two milestones couldn't be released, it became clearer and clearer that the release date of September 15th 2008 couldn't be met.

The new deadline has been set though - December 29th, 2008. New improvements in this release will include a type hierarchy view, new PHP explorer functionality, code templates and a code assist for dynamic variables. There was also a large change to the API that set things back a bit.

Community News: Serendipity Reaches Milestone - Version 1.0 Released

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:51:11 -0500

As noted by both Tobias Schlitt and Sebastian Bergmann, the popular blogging software, Serendipity has reached a huge milestone in its development - the release of version 1.0.

The Serendipity Team is proud to announce the final release version of Serendipity 1.0, an advanced and flexible blogging/cms web application. With its comprehensive feature set, including multiple authors, internationalization, templated output, and an open plugin architecture, Serendipity's stable 1.0 release is ready to become the most popular Web application in the world!

You can get the full story in their latest blog post today, including the latest bugfixes, how to upgrade your current installation, the future of the project, and, of course, the "thank you"s going out to all those that helped.

You can download this latest release directly from their site.