Working in an agency has taught me an important lesson about costs. As an agency you try to charge every hour of your staff to a project. After all, that's how agencys earn money. It doesn't matter what you do for the project: meetings, writing documentation, doing phone calls. Everything is charged to the client.…
Weiterlesen →Working on a global team can cause some serious issues. Just start with the time differences. Just consider a time difference of "only" six hours. When the first have of the team starts working the rest of the team is deep asleep (hopefully) and they will just have enough time in the afternoon to say…
Weiterlesen →Last year blogging was so much easier. The topic of rapsli.ch was well defined: Drupal. These days it's a lot harder. I've been blogging about all kind of things, but not really focused. Just what ever has been on my mind. This resulted mostly in blogposts in the "Misc" section. I have been blogging about…
Weiterlesen →I've been listening Podcasts for some time now. Usually I listen to podcasts while driving in the car, jogging, biking or doing housekeeping work (washing, cleaning, repearing stuff…). There's plenty of "idle time" that can be used for that. So here are my favorite Podcasts: Boagworld Paul Boag is a unic character. The podcast has…
Weiterlesen →Over the last couple of months I've become very passionate about WYSIWYG HTML editors. Mostly because I was forced to use a really bad HTML WYSIWYG editor called Sharepoint Out-of-the-box editor. I actually ended up just editing most of the stuff in plain HTML, which is though not the point of having a HTML WYSIWYG…
Weiterlesen →Yesterday I attended the Webilea again. Great meeting with some really nice input. The evening was all about data (besides the soccer game ;). I actually have never heard about those different open data projects and just btw: they that all end up in Google. Everybody was impressed by @hofrat and the project he is…
Weiterlesen →I have to admit, I'm an iPhone user. I just discovered Instagram. I have actually heard of that service a couple of times but have never paid any attention to it. I actually gave it a try today. It's a lot of fun and I'm actually curious to see what kinds of pictures will appear…
Weiterlesen →Presenting a project to the top management can bring a lot of benefits (yes you want them on board) but also some pitfalls when done wrongly. Five simple tips that will help you be 110% prepared for the presentation. 1. Have a backup plan for everything What if your projector fails? Do you have a…
Weiterlesen →Google Analytics got a facelift. I love it. At the first glance it looks basically the same, but have a closer look. I think it is Better and clearer structured. Even as a Google Analytics casual user you find the functions Smoother to use I haven't really used Google Analytics a lot. I think it…
Weiterlesen →A couple days ago I was booking the ferry for our summer vacation. There is a bunch of shipping companies out there, for example "Corsica Ferries", "Adria Ferries", "Condor Ferries" and so on. I was though booking via directferries, which is an intermediate platform, like a middleware. There are other platforms like that in the…
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