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2 Responses to “Devshop is a finalist for Red Herring’s Top 50 Canada!”

1. Ian Graham says:

   August 27, 2008 at 11:51 pm

   Well done Craig, congratulations.

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2. Ryan Lowe says:

   August 30, 2008 at 8:25 pm

   Amazing news! Congrats

   Reply

• About Me

  

  Entrepreneur.

  Currently building SWIXHQ.com

  @craig_fitz

• Categories

  • Business
  • Devshop.com
  • Local Ottawa
  • Managing Software Projects
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  • Web Development

• Other stuff I’ve written…

  • Don’t use code names for your products.
  • Forget Market Share!
  • Like a great magician, Steve is leaving the stage before the rest of us have truly figured out how he did it.
  • Don’t Pre-engineer, Re-engineer.
  • Zombie Competition
  • Devshop Service Closing
  • Podcast #1: Coloring Outside the Lines with WordPress, Thesis, Firebug, HTML & CSS.
  • Scary… MS to use a pre-yr2000 Rendering Engine for Outlook 2010, and break the Web… again…
  • When A/B Testing is a) Good and b) Bad.
  • A Scientific Perspective on Form vs. Function
  • April Fools
  • Paying Down Technical Debt
  • Here Comes the Golden Age of Web Development
  • Investment
  • Coding Horror: Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface
  • Digg founder to speak in Ottawa
  • Founders & Funders – Ottawa – Investment
  • Fitzpatrick’s Hierarchy of Tech Needs
  • Ottawa DemoCamp10
  • Contract Work
  • Devshop is a finalist for Red Herring’s Top 50 Canada!
  • Kicking the Top Bad Habits in Project Management
  • Speaking Engagement in Ottawa – Success!
  • Devshop in ITWorld Canada
  • Speaking Engagement in Ottawa
  • Devshop v2 is out!
  • Devshop on Blip.TV
  • Devshop v2 has hit public beta!
  • At MESH this week…
  • Devshop is a Branham Top 25 Up & Comer for 2008
  • Ottawa DemoCamp 8
  • Ottawa Edition of the VC Round Table
  • Software Development’s Evolution towards Product Design
  • Innovation versus the WENUS.
  • Was your product “assembled” or “carved”?
  • It all starts with recruiting.
  • Ottawa DemoCamp7!
  • Workaholics vs. the Passionates
  • A fringe benefit of building in the cool factor.
  • FoundRead on Why Design is So Important
  • Flexible durations are here!
  • While (EndlessLoop): Sit there and wait;
  • Frankenbabies.
  • Ottawa BarCamp4
  • Why I love Booleans. And hate them.
  • Interesting Perspective on Agile Development
  • Who’s Managing this Project, Anyway?
  • Developers as Chefs
  • The difference between rocket science and software development is…
  • Startup Ottawa blog launches.
  • Joel on how the JavaScript performance thing is a temporary problem. Now get back to writing maintainable code.
  • DemoCamp Ottawa
  • First 2 Devshop Commercials
  • Office Space 2.0
  • When Product Design is actually Marketing.
  • Blog Tag is back.
  • It’s nearly impossible to be a great designer and a great coder at the same time.
  • Co-working Space coming to Ottawa
  • Travelin’
  • Death of the Desktop: The Movie
  • Don’t try and punch too far above your weight category
  • Building Spare Cycles into your Company
  • Devshop goes live!
  • Ottawa Barcamp 3
  • Caution: Feature Matrix Ahead
  • Development’s Job is to make Support Unnecessary
  • New Devshop Blog for Product Updates
  • Ottawa DemoCamp3
  • Where you put your padding makes a difference.
  • Less is More vs. More is More
  • Blog Tag – I’m it!
  • Zots, Story Points & “Pure Dev Days” vs. Days, Weeks, Months
  • Ottawa’s 2nd BarCamp is Tomorrow!
  • Blogging Growing Pains
  • The switch to Typepad
  • Counting Keystrokes in Code
  • Why Good Enough Isn’t – Quantifiably.
  • Choose Your Units of Measure Wisely
  • Fixing Cross-Browser CSS
  • Why Craftsmanship is More Important than Ever
  • Use Reverse Engineering to Your Advantage
  • Hosted Software: Licensing the “individual”
  • Go Forth and Inspire
  • How We Treat Our Customers – Before and After they Buy our Product (Kathy Sierra)
  • Developer’s Bill of Rights
  • The Trouble with Resource Loading
  • On To-do Lists, Calendars and Schedules
  • It’s a Beautiful Day for Hosted Software
  • Interviewing a Software Project Manager
  • Avoid the Features Arms Race
  • What they don’t tell you about “Ship early and often”
  • Shared accountability? What accountability?
  • Can I have some more Human Capital please?
  • The Geek Manifesto
  • Planned Overtime means Planned Failure
  • Programmer CEO’s
  • How long would it take if everything went wrong?
  • The Art of Code Maintenance
  • Creative Execs vs. Optimizer Execs
  • When you’re small, know when NOT to compromise.