June 2010 Archives
Living in the Moment
Are sports black & white, or is there room for human fallibility?
Stop lying.
“I don’t have time to test” seems to be somewhat of a recurring theme in hurried projects. Stop lying to yourself—and your clients.
Reflections on MongoDB
We have used MongoDB on several production and play projects over the last year. Here’s what we think about it.
sitemap.xml in Harmony
We added a Google Sitemap to our Harmony-powered site. Here’s how to do it.
How to choose a Rails contractor
How do you know you’re hiring a good Rails developer?
Meet Keith Gaddis
The latest team member at Collective Idea.
Clever Background Changes
Our backgrounds change, but they’re not random. We’re more clever than that. Let me explain…
On an Agile Space
Our workspace helps us work, and for the first time we have one of our own.
Quarter-inch Holes
Theodore Levitt, Economist and Professor at Harvard Business School, once told his M.B.A. students, “People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole.”
Our Collective Ideas
All of us at Collective Idea have shared our ideas separately over the years, but never with any form of consistency. We feel that it is time to be intentional about sharing our ideas as a company.