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If you would like to have a great career in QA, and be seen as a Super Hero in your development team, here are 4 critical mantras to keep in mind at all times...
"Time and Materials" contracts ("T&M" in short) are the only sensible structure for sophisticated software development like we work on at Six Feet Up, but only in concert with a project management methodology that reduces risk for clients...
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how hard it is to estimate creative projects including sophisticated software development like we work on here at Six Feet Up...
If an auto-mechanic can’t accurately estimate a quick and simple car fix, what hope do software developers have when building something new and complex that’s never been exactly done before?...
Each time you delete a web page, a copy is kept in the database in case you need to get it back later. Over time, the number of unused objects can grow and grow, expanding the memory needed to operate the website, and slowing down operations...
IPython is a powerful interactive Python shell that can be used with Zope to aid in debugging issues. Syntax highlighting, tab completion and code introspection are just a few reasons to use it...
Hardly any software is maintained by the original author for its whole life and some claim that 80% of the lifetime cost of a piece of software comes from maintaining that code.
Most people who don't blog cite lack of time as a major excuse. But blogs have a big impact on traffic and online visibility. Understanding why is the first step in boosting your blogging impact...
The Plone site recipe allows you to automate creating and maintaining a Plone site using zc.buildout, allowing everyone working on a project to start from the same point and improving build quality by reducing the need for human interaction.
Moving Content Management Systems can be daunting. Will it have all the tools you need? Will it be able to handle my needs? Learn how to migrate to Plone with Six Feet Up...
Our state-of-the-art colocation facility, Lifeline Data Center, charges us by the rack, which means we have a strong incentive to use the space in our racks as efficiently as possible.
Jono Bacon is the Community Manager for Ubuntu and gave a talk this morning at OSCON. Community management is important one to me because of my involvement in the Plone community. We could use a formal community manager, but individuals in our community seem to fill many of the roles he discussed.
Last Friday, some of my colleagues went to a virtualization presentation that the organizers had cleverly combined with the opening of Green Lantern. Here's why business people should care...
An interesting reality of working for a company rooted in Open Source software is that while most people have heard of Open Source, many of still unaware of what that actually means and how it differs from proprietary commercial software.
When I first came in for work, I was expecting to be the inexperienced intern who is always in the way, since my computer experience was limited to Java, a little Linux command-line syntax, and what networking I learned before college...
On April 28-29, 2011 Six Feet Up held its third FedEx Day, a quarterly internal event that fosters creativity, intrinsic motivation and team collaboration. This time 7 teams worked on a variety of outstanding projects...