Development and estimation

In programming, a good developer is not necessarily a good coder but an organized one. So estimations are really important in this business; a good estimation is the difference between a happy client and an angry one. I usually use a simple rule: the quickest time multiplied by 2; also I know people who multiply it by 1.5 or use the medium time and add some days to it.

And here comes the Murphy's law: no matter how many estimations you give (and how accurate they will be) all the projects will be started on the same day.

... and last week I gave 4 estimations :)

Facebook photo tagging

Photo tagging is this simple! Doing it involves less code that I ever imagined - luckily there is jquery to help - and it really adds complexity and usability to a website.

See more info here and here.

And a sample:

There is a new CAPTCHA in town

Introducing the new CAPTCHA application: AdCaptcher.

Theory: this could be a smart move for your website: now we don't loose users over that nasty CAPTCHA image. Now we can have some beautiful images instead.

Practice: wasn't CAPTCHA meant to be difficult to read? For a bot at least. Isn't it easier to loose the CAPTCHA in first place? Apparently not! Well, I guess if you build a better bot the solution is to get an idiot CAPTCHA. Better than nothing.

Be safe, use CAPTCHA!