We like to think that we build pretty awesome websites. We spend much time creating websites with great content that work on many browsers and devices and that are of course beautiful to look at. But all this effort is lost when a page takes too long to load. People will leave when you make them wait.
Hi there! Since VI Company is growing quite fast, it is time for someone to take care of the internal processes and daily matters. And that’s where I come in. I’m Veronique, the new office manager.
Last week, we held our bi-annual 360 feedback session. We’ve always used the method described on Jurgen Appelo’s blog. During the last Agile Open Holland conference we discussed the assessment process of staff in agile and we came up with the idea of combining planning poker and 360-degree-feedback.
There are a lot of tools available to create an automatic build for your development process: CruiseControl, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Hudson and TeamCity, for example.
The first automatic build we created was done with Cruise Control. About a year later we decided to change to TeamCity. This article explains why we chose TeamCity, and how you can create an automatic build with TeamCity yourself.
Last friday Bart-Jan and I went to Scheveningen for the Now We Are Talking Festival, presented by Typeradio. The weather was wonderful, a first this summer. The free(!) event was held at the Free Architecture Surf Terrain (F.A.S.T.) at Scheveningen beach in The Hague.
Voetbalfest (football-fest) is an annual football tournament for media agencies in the Rotterdam area.
Imagine you’re sitting in a restaurant. Your friends told you about the great food they serve, and you are looking forward to find out if it’s as good as they promised you.
Almost 250 transactions in a single second, not too long after launch. And a few days later, 523 users have performed 7.428 transactions, together totaling a turnover of € 26.896.064,58. That’s just a few of the highlights of the Sprinter Competition we launched for ING last Friday.
Presenting and communicating our work to clients is an important part of our job as a web agency. If you have any experience with this, you probably know how hard it is to make sure interface and interaction concepts are clear to everyone involved in a project.
During the development of the 2010 annual report for STOP AIDS NOW! my colleague Jan-Paul made me aware of an article written by Aaron Gustafson at A List Apart. In this article Aaron describes a method to improve the way links are displayed on a printed webpage. The problem that normally occurs is that only the text of the link gets printed, but the web address thatʼs associated with the text link doesnʼt.