http://www.dmitriev.com/blog This is a private blog of mine where I share my thoughts, concerns or anything else I care to write about. Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:01:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Every online company should always try to continuously improve their product. As head of development of norwegian classifieds website zett.no I've been looking at our competitors' websites (finn.no and tinde.no) comparing our booking solutions. [caption id="attachment_54" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Booking solution of finn, tinde and zett"][/caption] Booking system is a heart of these ... http://www.dmitriev.com/blog/2009-04-15/booking-process-challenge/ Here is the list of books and resources that I read recently that has influenced me in one way or another (in no particular order): Zen Habits - blog of Leo Babauta covering: achieving goals, productivity, being organized, GTD, motivation, eliminating debt, saving, getting a flat stomach, eating healthy, simplifying, living ... http://www.dmitriev.com/blog/2009-04-14/influential-reading/ Just wanted to share with you all this sprint burndown chart: [caption id="attachment_47" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Sprint burndown chart (click to enlarge)"][/caption] How do you feel about it? How do you think the team felt about it? Do you think this was a good or a bad sprint? Say what you think in the comments, ... http://www.dmitriev.com/blog/2009-04-14/wrong-sprint-burndown/ I was speaking today at SEO howlers session at International Search Summit Oslo together with Andy Atkins-Krüger and Kristjan Mar Hauksson. We were trying to wake up the audience after lunch and I hope we done this well. It was quite fun (at least for me) and at the same ... http://www.dmitriev.com/blog/2009-03-13/seo-howlers/ I launched http://kanosurvey.com a small project for the Agile community. If you use kano model for prioritizing your features, this site would be helpful. You can set up a survey and get your users/customers answer it in order to find out more about your features. http://www.dmitriev.com/blog/2009-03-02/kanosurveycom/ Yesterday, I've been participating in a Debate about agile and usability. Three Scrum Masters (I was one of them) and three UX people was sitting at the same table. Everyone of us should come with one suggestion about how to fit UX people into the scrum teams better. Here is what's ... http://www.dmitriev.com/blog/2009-02-26/fitting-ux-people-into-scrum-team/ Let's take a look at the elections with the eyes of the web-developer. We'll take a look at following parties: RV, SV, DNA, SP, KrF, V, H, Frp I choose to focus on 4 areas, each of those will get a score -2(awfull), -1(bad), 0(neutral), 1(good), 2(excellent). The areas are: 1. Visual design 2. ... http://www.dmitriev.com/blog/2007-08-27/september-10th-municipal-government-and-county-council-elections/ For those of you who want to use ctwm window manager on ubuntu. I installed ctwm and was surprised that it did not show up among other sessions in the login screen of gdm. With a little research I found that all you have to do is: cd /usr/share/xsessions copy one of those ... http://www.dmitriev.com/blog/2007-08-26/starting-ctwm-on-ubuntu/ I tried installing a WordPress plugin today that should show random picasa albums (Picasa Web Matrix was choosen for the task). Of some reasons it did not work :-(, so I had to dig into code myself. Found out that probably google have changed the structure of the feed, so ... http://www.dmitriev.com/blog/2007-01-22/wp-picasa-plugin-on-dreamhost/ One more gadget in my collection at home is this beatiful Network Storage device with a capacity of slightly over 1Tb :-) It took a night to build RAID5, and another 15 hours to transfer everything from two external hard disks, but after that... it's only joy. It runs scielently ... http://www.dmitriev.com/blog/2007-01-22/new-gadget-network-storage/