Lose the Feature-List And Start Experiencing

When we go around looking for something or someone solely based on the list of required features in our hands, we are still missing a whole lot of information that contribute to our success. I mean it is quite possible to end up dating a yellow baboon! After all she has beautiful blonde hair, big brown eyes, a big smile, prefers a healthy diet of fruits and vegetables; she is none-smoking, funny and very cuddly. Who wouldn’t want to take this young lady out for a dinner based on those descriptions?

In reality many of those who shop around based on a list of features, do in fact end up cuddling with the yellow monkey instead!

It is the quality of experience, context, and the philosophy behind something or someone’s personality that defines an ideal match. One reason behind the success of Apple products, Skype, or Facebook is the rich user experience and the difference that they make in our day-to-day life. Successful business partners or romantic partners do not recruit each other and instead attract each other in so many different levels.

So stop asking questions and start experiencing!

There is a Joomla Development Workshop Happenning in Vancouver

There is a Joomla Development Workshop happenning on September 25th and my good friend Aaron Handford from Floating World Development will be teaching there. One of Aaron’s most recent projects has been the launch of Earls Restaurant website in Joomla! 1.5 content management platform.

There are still spaces available if you would like to register click here

Does Your Software Project Have a Vision And Design Philosophy?

A vision and design philosophy is the soul of a software project. Just mindlessly focusing on building all the feature-sets brought in by the client without defining the problem that we are about to solve, will lead us to no more than a zombie put together out of dead body parts. It matches all the descriptions on the client’s spec-sheet, yet it won’t live up to the expectations.

Nooku Framework Is Now Publicly Available

We have good news for the MVC crazed web application developers and especially those who use Joomla! not only as a great CMS but also a superb framework for Internet software development.

The long awaited Nooku Framework developed by the father and co-founder of Joomla! CMS Johan Janssens and his uber talented team-mate Mathias Verraes is now available to public on the sourceforge under the GPL license.

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