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Specifications – you need them for web project as well

By Giedrius Majauskas on May 29, 2009

My blog post is inspired by a meeting where I had a role of mediator between web developing company and customer. The issues were quite simple and common: increasing costs due to neglected specifications and some badly described features. Customer and web development company are in the same boat, although this fact is often forgotten [...]

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I am using Seesmic Desktop. You should use it too

By Giedrius Majauskas on May 19, 2009

I had no fun in twitter till I saw first destop client.  It was tweetdeck – a powerful and really nice application that had won my heart at once. However, there is a couple problems with it at the moment, and the most noticeable is memory leak. I tend to leave my laptop always on, [...]

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Website development outsourcing : pitfalls for small and medium business owners

By Giedrius Majauskas on May 15, 2009

Business management software and websites are a necessity in downturn economy for many small-medium businesses that have to squeeze maximum from their employees and advertising opportunities. However, dedicated business management software is costly and it is important to understand how to minimize these costs and how to avoid pitfalls that increase these costs. Pitfall #1. [...]

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TrafficMachine + Twitterfeed – Brain = #fail

By Giedrius Majauskas on May 13, 2009

There are several good articles about which twitter users to unfollow or never follow, with very valid reasons. However, I have one particular type of users that I honestly dislike. That is fully automated twitter systems, combining several types of undesired behavior. It is very funny when people advertise automation and forget, that twitter is [...]

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Leaving unmoderated comments? Think again

By Giedrius Majauskas on May 11, 2009

Comments are the basic social feature that most of the sites provide. A comment allows interaction between visitor and owner of website. However, comments pose a danger for website owner as well, especially when they are not moderated for spam. This is often forgotten by small website owners that install blogging platforms with basic configuration. [...]

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