Mikael Palmstedt

Small iterations is sort of how I believe in doing everything; from marketing, development, projects to life in general. Small iterations makes it possible to quickly change directions, estimate and re-estimate risks depending on how the world changes (or depending on how you re-estimate how you thought the world is working) and it makes it possible for you to change your mind about things without it costing you to much in terms of money and time.

So beliefs of course needs to be challenged from time to time … hence instead of putting together a project into little pieces, giving it away to a few suppliers I made it into one big very nicely specified project. The result … the supplier promise delivery within 4 weeks, agrees to getting paid upon delivery … today I look back on a three month delayed project. Still no delivery btw, they are close though … like they have been for the last month. Tragic for both us and them, we have no product and they have no money.

I consider making a poster saying “small iterations” and sticking it on the wall so its the first thing I see after waking up every morning …

If anyone missed it PeoplePath needs a developer, we sofar have one candidate that we might go for but of course we want more options (plus knowing of possible extra resources for other projects is never wrong), if anyone is casually interested, skype me, nick “palmstedt” or email me something you have done and are proud of. We think the perfect candidate is worth a salary of SEK 24 000 - 26 000, or a freelancer invoiced amount of SEK34 000 - 37 000 per month.

Location is stockholm, no remote workers. The project is PeoplePath and you need to be good working in LAMP environment, flash skills would also be nice. We assume you are a thinking mind and are not waiting for todo lists!

Since there’s a risk I will start a new project in a few weeks that requires me to work with asp.net 2.0 C# for around 20h per week I took a quick look on the framework.

Number one impression is that it feels like using Visual Studio is almost like cheating a bit :). The code comes to you easily and even though I never looked at ASP before it felt extremely easy to get going with. It takes away much more of the actual coding from you than eg ZEND editor.

With regard to structure I haven’t really figured it out yet, I prefer MVC structures since this is what is usually used in more low level programming which is what I have worked most with. In VS you basically have the view in one page, and the code behind it plus of course the underlying DB but still … hmm lets see.

Guess I will loose all my geek cred if I start working with MS :).