St Pauls Hospital researcher and OpenRoad client wins $1.0M grant for web-based chronic disease research.
Category Archives: Development
Truckers online prove web 1.0 still a powerful force
With over 15,000 self-proclaimed social media experts on Twitter and all of the year-end buzz about Web 2.0 concepts in everyone’s 2009 top 10 list, it’s often easy to overlook some of the basic business value provided by that other …
What makes a successful web development project?
We were recently asked the question, “What makes a successful web development project?” by a potential client. It’s a good question, one that I spent a fair bit of time pondering. Every project is different: the clients we …
Designing Interoperable Web Services
Lawrence Chan and Jeff Pennal recently spoke at the Vancouver Tech Fest on Designing Interoperable Web Services. This year’s event was the first ever, and given the great turnout I’m sure it will continue in the future.
Here are Lawrence …
Problems in Evaluating Mid-Size Enterprise Software
Enterprise software products are difficult to evaluate. This is not earth-shattering news to anyone that’s ever been in the position of having to compare one content management system package to another or been responsible for implementing a new CRM system …
AOL search privacy breach
On August 6th, AOL Research released the raw search logs of over 650,000 AOL users from a three month period. The data was released ostensibly for research purposes, but the privacy breach in releasing the data has been the main…
Doing More With Google Maps
First, there was MapQuest. In 1998, if you wanted a map or directions, it was the website to visit. Online maps were fairly small images, the zooming in and out feature of the map was time consuming as you …
Canada on Rails
A couple of us attended the sold out Canada on Rails last week, the first ever Ruby on Rails conference. It was a good conference, and I was surprised to see how far people had come for a relatively small …
Enterprise 2.0: Collaboration Trends on the Intranet
In the spring edition of the MIT Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business School associate professor Andrew McAfee writes about the emergence of web 2.0-esque collaboration technologies within enterprise settings. Tools typically used on the web are starting to be …
Making users a part of your next software development project
Business in Vancouver highlights OpenRoad’s philosophy on the importance of keeping users involved in the software development process.
Published in Business in Vancouver
Issue 825: August 16-22, 2005
Software developers have traditionally been bad at talking to a very important …
The Authors
