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Friday, August 05, 2005
Developing using blogs
Economist.com is getting a redesign.
Here in the Solutions Delivery team, we have been developing it on both sides of the pond, and email is always clogged, constantly cc'ing people who don't need to be cc'd. So we thought we'd try a blog, it's been a really good way to raise issues and track them and also to note assumptions as we go along. It's all died down a bit now we have delivered some of it and has moved into cc's for bug tracking but it really was a clean way to manage and document progress and issues.... It would of course be a lot better if we could have used the cc system in blog mode however.
This is a call to action. How can we make the cc system better?
Post your comments here.....
Economist.com is getting a redesign.
Here in the Solutions Delivery team, we have been developing it on both sides of the pond, and email is always clogged, constantly cc'ing people who don't need to be cc'd. So we thought we'd try a blog, it's been a really good way to raise issues and track them and also to note assumptions as we go along. It's all died down a bit now we have delivered some of it and has moved into cc's for bug tracking but it really was a clean way to manage and document progress and issues.... It would of course be a lot better if we could have used the cc system in blog mode however.
This is a call to action. How can we make the cc system better?
Post your comments here.....
Comments:
I like FCKEditor, which is similar to the blogging interface on Blogger.com, I am sure whatever we do the the cc system we could incorporate something like that. To be honest, if you could buy blogger.com's software I think it would do great change control.
I'd like the cc interface to be skinnable so that every service could have it's own fields with required and optional interfaces. Something like an xsl style sheet that each team could get coded so we can really move forward in a flexible fashion.
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