Twitter Wrap-up for the Week of October 22 Through 26
If you’re not following us on Twitter, here’s what you missed this week:
Web and Software Development
- A simple chat room with node.js and websockets.
- Building a Self-Correcting Input Field.
- JavaScript has largely abandoned OOP, but you really should be creating interfaces with it.
- The shortcommings of Java programming and another argument for Node.js.
Technology and the Computer Industry
- The CIA and Jeff Bezos Bet on Quantum Computing (via @TechReview, @NIglobal, and @GForst)
- See Mossberg video. Microsoft’s Windows 8 Test (via @Benioff)
Web Design
Project Management and Business Analysis
- What words to you hope to never hear uttered on a project? (via @PMVoices)
- Leadership and The Lord of the Rings as a model for Project Management?
- What should go in a business case?
- Smart Failure. What’s Wrong With the Way We Manage Business?
- Why Fixed Bid Contracts are Awful for Web Design and Development Projects.
Marketing and Social Media
- One small step to PM creativity: Kill the bullets in your next PowerPoint presentation. Think visuals, says Warner. (via @PMICongress)
- How to PROPERLY use tags in WordPresss.
- 8 useful code snippets for new web development projects.
- Complex Problems / Complex Solutions.
- No One Ever Bought Anything in an Elevator … More conversations and fewer announcements.
Miscellaneous Items of Interest
- The Headless Horseman continues to ride on Friday and Saturday, plus our new Sunday date! Please come enjoy our activities, 6-9 P.M. (via ConnerPrairie)
- Our tech writers and ghost bloggers continue to war over this: The Oxford Comma: Hart’s Rules (via @edeckers and @OxfordWords )
- Amazing pumpkin carvings. Maybe I’ll just put mine back in the house.
