http://www.cruconsultants.com CC's Product Manager Blog Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:01:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The ParisByTrain.com project was a success in terms of project management because it brought together three critical perspectives and requirements: Customer: ParisByTrain.com fills a need for clear concise France train travel information, demanded by travelers and tourists. Business: ParisByTrain.com must support sufficient traffic and visibility to make it viable in terms of costs and ... http://www.cruconsultants.com/project-management-interdisciplinary-requirements/ From its beginning of instructing others how to dual boot their Mac with Tiger and Leopard, InstallingCats.com has grown into a troubleshooting and solutions website for various Mac issues and applications. The most popular articles include dealing with audio/video issues such as avi divx file playback under Mac OS X, something that ... http://www.cruconsultants.com/installingcatscom/ ZBookClub.com is an online book club aimed at letting readers and book lovers discuss their favorite books with a virtual bookclub. The difficulties with in-person book clubs comes down to timing: It's difficult for people to find the time to meet together in a space, at a certain time ... http://www.cruconsultants.com/zbookclubcom/ Paris by Train aims to provide clear instructions on how one gets from point A to point B via trains or other public transportation in and around Paris, France. No prior knowledge is assumed. By taking this perspective in writing guide articles, I'm better able to address the ... http://www.cruconsultants.com/parisbytraincom/ Stock-Value.com is a beginner's guide to value investing, i.e. purchasing stocks that are at or below their intrinsic value. This active style investment strategy is most famous due to Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway and his annual shareholder letters which divulge his opinions and strategy to picking undervalued stocks with great ... http://www.cruconsultants.com/stock-valuecom/ Using APC (Alternative PHP Cache) to speed up a slow MediaWiki install is a good idea. A quick before and after study of the performance gain from APC using Apache ab resulted in pages being served 4 times faster (from 328ms mean load time to 82ms, number of pages ... http://www.cruconsultants.com/apc-mediawiki-performance-optimization/ Cru Consultants develops and publishes in-house web applications for end-user consumers (general public) as well as business clients. We'll be posting updates, teasers, previews, announcements and launches from this site. Stay tuned and don't hesitate to leave us a message or a comment. http://www.cruconsultants.com/hello-world/