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Busy as a busy thing
Mar. 12th, 2013 10:02 amMostly recovered from my cold... it was pretty minor, with a possible additional blend of hay fever starting early thanks to some weirdly sunny days here.
Follow up from MWC is progressing. I've just ditched the CRM I was using (Zoho) and started using another. CRMs are something sales people hate but really have to use. The reality is when you're juggling a couple of dozen sales leads and opportunities, you need something to keep track of them and the actions associated with them, otherwise you'll drop balls, and I've been dropping balls. The problem being, the best of the bunch, Salesforce, is a) over engineered and b) eye wateringly expensive. The basic version that actually does useful stuff is $50 per user per month and the version that works is $125...
I've found a lightweight free one (well free for the first user) that really is hitting the spot. It's got a fantastic tag management system which really makes things straight forward and easy to use and follow.
Anyway... back to the grindstone. I just submitted an abstract to a developer conference for a potential talk. We've done a couple of these and we're starting to get a feeling for what works and what doesn't.
Provisionally the paper is called: HTML5 - What to do when you don't have a web server...
It's actually a serious problem, and to quote one of my engineers: "I keep looking for a backend PHP call and it's not there and then I have to try and replace it with JavaScript which is a nightmare."
Follow up from MWC is progressing. I've just ditched the CRM I was using (Zoho) and started using another. CRMs are something sales people hate but really have to use. The reality is when you're juggling a couple of dozen sales leads and opportunities, you need something to keep track of them and the actions associated with them, otherwise you'll drop balls, and I've been dropping balls. The problem being, the best of the bunch, Salesforce, is a) over engineered and b) eye wateringly expensive. The basic version that actually does useful stuff is $50 per user per month and the version that works is $125...
I've found a lightweight free one (well free for the first user) that really is hitting the spot. It's got a fantastic tag management system which really makes things straight forward and easy to use and follow.
Anyway... back to the grindstone. I just submitted an abstract to a developer conference for a potential talk. We've done a couple of these and we're starting to get a feeling for what works and what doesn't.
Provisionally the paper is called: HTML5 - What to do when you don't have a web server...
It's actually a serious problem, and to quote one of my engineers: "I keep looking for a backend PHP call and it's not there and then I have to try and replace it with JavaScript which is a nightmare."
