Add It Up Development Blog

Linklog: Graphs and Personal Project Management

Progress is slow (well, static to be honest) but I’m hoping that I can kickstart my productivity later this month. In lieu of any actual work done, here are a couple of recent items of interest to the project: Ryan Singer over at 37signals writes about how to manage long breaks in personal projects. I’m currently [...]

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Even more independent web apps

In lieu of anything more informative to post (hey, I discovered Warcraft - if that’s not an excuse I don’t know what is), I’d like to link to a couple of new web applications launched recently by independent designer/developers. Cart45 is a simple and easy-to-install ecommerce application developed by Phil Thompson with Soapy Co and Richard [...]

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Woo! A theme for the blog

It’s naturally frustrating to be stuck with the default theme for a blog, so this weekend I took the opportunity to update the look of this site with a theme from WooThemes (via Elliot Jay Stocks, one of the designers for WooThemes). As a complete novice at WordPress it probably took longer than it should to [...]

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Project management for the one-man band

When it comes to managing a project on which you’re the sole writer, designer, developer, and tester - is a commercial project management solution really necessary? The answer, of course, is ‘yes’. Without a consistent workflow for identifying, prioritising, and managing all your tasks across multiple areas, it would be far too easy to get overwhelmed [...]

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Garrett on Silverback

No sooner had I mentioned them both in the same sentence, but Garrett Dimon posted a detailed review of Clearleft’s Silverback OS X usability testing application. I had a preview/beta copy of Silverback sent to me, but unfortunately I didn’t find an opportunity to use it (aside from filming myself browsing the web for a few [...]

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Hello World!

You’re nobody in this town unless you’re building an application. App development seems to have become the de facto next step in the evolution of a web designer. Shaun Inman led the way with the phenomenal Mint, but since then we’ve seen an explosion in freelancers moving into the application development arena. Garrett Dimon’s bug-tracking app, [...]

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