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The second quarter was another successful three months for yuwantithwhen.com. A number of essays were very popular with the site’s visitors. The most popular essay for the quarter was “Why It Takes So Long.” Thanks to Steve Johnson over at Pragmatic Marketing for directing his readers to the posting. There are often very good reasons it takes longer than expected to deliver a software product, but there are things that we often do to make projects take longer than they should. I’m thinking of writing the sequel to the essay: “Why it Takes Longer Than it Should.” I’m not sure when I’ll pen that one, but it’s in the queue.

The first quarter of 2008 has been a terrific start of the year for “You Want IT When?” The site continues to attract new visitors every month at an increasing rate. One article, in particular, enjoyed tremendous popularity when a popular member of dzone bookmarked the article “A Strategy for Building Stable Applications.” Consequently, the article enjoyed tremendous popularity for the month of March, pushing it to the top read article for the entire quarter.

In February many of the older articles continued to have heavy readership. I find it interesting to see how the articles of interest evolve over time. Some of the older articles are the most popular articles for the month when not too long ago it was always the latest articles published that would have the largest readership for the month.

January was a good month at You Want It When?  It had the largest increase in unique visitors in a single month.  Unique visitors for the month of January grew ~75% over the month of …

First, I’d like to wish everyone a belated Happy New Year.  I’m starting to get back in to the swing of things, and I’m looking to publish as frequently as I was before the months …

 
It’s often said, you have to take risks to be successful. Who would disagree with that?  Starting a business is risky.  Investing in the stock market is risky. Going to college is risky.  Getting married …

It was worse than I thought.  I figured I’d be able to get at least one essay a week published during the month of November, but that even proved to be difficult.  I’m just juggling …

 
The month of October has just come to a close, and it was an interesting month here on You Want it When?  The month started with the first of a series on metrics:  “Software Metrics: …

It has been my experience that shortchanging quality has always had a negative impact to the team and the organization that was never worth the trade-off.