Application development is undergoing a metamorphosis: on the technical side developers have never had such a comprehensive choice of tools to practice their craft, but the management and skills problems are greater than they have ever been. Here we look at the evolution of Agile, some of the challenges faced and benfits of adopting an agile approach.

Tax – Something that is at the heart of everything we do in Britain. And the government is considering plans to raise the tax on the highest CO2 emission cars (e.g. 4x4s and sports cars) from £220 per year to around £1800 per year on the grounds that they contribute most to the damaging CO2 effects. However, does CO2 actually contribute to global warming, and if so, how much?

The emergence of the Ajax programming style in the past year and a half has made rich web clients more than just a pipedream. The fact that it uses established technologies that are in some cases a decade old means that there is relatively little vendor control over its use.

Six months after unleashing its first production version, Zimbra Inc is adding to its Ajax-based email and group collaboration system a WYSIWYG Wiki document editor and threw in the ability to render natively on several major mobile clients.

As a follow on from “The Dao Continues” in May 2005, I’m going to return to the topic of design, form and function on the web as it is often a topic for lengthy discussion between clients, designers and developers. It was sparked by a question one of our design partners asked me today – “so how come there are so many attractive sites out there that seem to be html based”.