The Sprint
By Mark Bixby // Feb 5, 2007 //
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$11M over budget, and five years late? Um...
In 2000, TCS America, a US subsidiary of India based Tata Consulting Services was contracted by the State of New Mexico to build an unemployment insurance benefits website - to offset bottlenecking in the Department of Labor’s phone system and office locations. The site needed to provide useful resources, answer questions and allow users to apply for benefits. Their current site (originally contracted for $3.6 M, and due by 2002) left us wondering what had gone wrong.
“Let’s just build it!”
No one…
CSS and Typography
By Brian Warren // Dec 11, 2006 //
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Barcamp Albuquerque was just a short month ago. I had a great time and enjoyed meeting everyone there. One fascinating thing about Barcamp is that the requirement to present brings out some fun stuff in people. The topics people choose to present come from one of two sources: Either a) It’s what they’re absolutely most passionate about, and thus at least an ad-hoc expert. Or b) It’s whatever issue they recently struggled with, figured out, and need to share with other people to save them the time. I suppose my topic was a bit of both.
I…
How to Plan a Party in Five Minutes
By Brian Warren // Sep 17, 2006 //
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Back in August, Mark and I were chatting via IM and he asked if I was going to An Event Apart. I told him I wasn’t sure. I hadn’t quit my job yet, so there were a few unknowns as far as timing, finances and whatnot. I guess I’m an easy sell, because just minutes later I was booking my flight.
Flashback to March of this year, when Mark put out the call to give away some free java in exchange for hanging out and chatting about…
