Methodology

SXSW to Go: Creating Razorfish’s iPhone Guide to Austin (Part 3)

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Optimization As the Razorfish Guide to SXSW became more fully developed, we started to look at key areas where we could make performance gains and either actually speed up the site or simply make the site appear to load more quickly. (Check out part 1 of our story ...

SXSW to Go: Creating Razorfish’s iPhone Guide to Austin (Part 2)

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Design and Development Up against a tight deadline, our small team was working fast and furious to create the Razorfish mobile guide to Austin in time for the SXSW Interactive conference. With our technologies determined and all eyes on the iPhone, we set out to bring the ...

SXSW to Go: Creating Razorfish’s iPhone Guide to Austin (Part 1)

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Once a year, the internet comes to visit Austin, Texas at the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) conference, and, for 2009, the Razorfish Austin office was determined to leave an impression. We ended up making close to 3,000 impressions. Industry leaders and the web avante-garde converge on Austin for one weekend ...

agile and pair programming

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

One of my favorite topics in agile and iterative development is pair programming.The question is can we make it happen more and do we want to try it more? I've typically seen it on the smaller and more isolated projects. It's a fascinating concept and the research, while minimal that ...

Leveraging Model Driven Development

Monday, October 27th, 2008

[caption id="attachment_306" align="alignright" width="212" caption="Project Triangle"][/caption] Achieving efficiency in the software development process is one of the key motivators every team should strive for. Efficiency can be measured in a variety of ways. The most obvious measurements are cost, project timeline, and the feature set that can be implemented given the ...

The Back of a Napkin…

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Often times we spend significant time caught up with diagrams and illustrations of our enterprise technology architectures, patterns, and concepts. Most recently a couple of us have been spending time on some diagrams to help illustrate the concept of a content management bus to help a large organization better share ...