Monthly Archives: January 2012

Why iBook Author is Ho-Hum

January 23, 2012
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Why iBook Author is Ho-Hum

TweetSo professionally, this was an interesting week for me. Wednesday, Chegg shipped their new eReader which is the project I’ve been working on since August. It’s HTML5, and its a faithful representation of the books (more on why that’s important in a bit). Thursday, Apple shipped an upgraded iBooks, announced a new textbook initiative aimed…

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Writing a Project Charter saved my butt

January 18, 2012
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TweetSo Chegg launched our new eReader today so I thought I would take a moment to talk about writing a Project Charter per Johanna Rothman’s excellent book on project management. Johanna recommends that for every project you sit down and write out a project charter. The project charter states the purpose of the project, additional…

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Job Hunting Sucks

January 16, 2012
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TweetA friend of mine who is job hunting (he’s looking for a job in Software QA if you know of any positions) emailed me this morning for help with his job hunt. Here’s my tough-love answer: Your job right now is looking for work. If you’re not spending 35-40 hours/week on looking for work, you’re…

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