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Crowdstorm Pre-Beta Workshop

Philip Wilkinson on Jul 30, 2007, in Uncategorized

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This weekend was really productive as I had both Bartek (one of our top developers from Poland) and Oliver (our new CTO) in the trusted places office - thanks guys.

The whole purpose was to go through every single aspect of the new upcoming site, covering:

1. going through all the latest designs and CSS code, making sure every element matched correctly with the corresponding technical capability and code. Also that the flow of the site is really obvious!
2. Improving the technical architecture - going through caching, optimisation etc…
3. Planning the Feature Roadmap which is actually pretty hard considering the vast amount of things we could do. The trick is to really only plan up to 6 months ahead as everything will change and user feedback will heavily influence what we do.
4. Agreeing on the features left to do and those that can wait till post beta launch
5. Agreeing the process for migrating the old site to the new one and the plan in general about inviting everyone who has signed up be on the closed beta.
6. ensuring our SEO talents were put to good use.

We’ve also been working out of our favourite haunt at adam street where we get free wireless, a great choice of drinks, and a nice “cave” atmosphere which always works well when you’re doing technical work!

Here’s Bartek working hard on the new “crowd” display algorithm:

and me (for some reason without a left hand!):

Now of course, Bartek is in his last week with us as he’s moving on to start his new business idea “travels.to” in Poland later this year - I must stop telling people how great starting your own business is Oliver will be taking over of course - fun times ahead!