GRASP: a Framework for Product Cycle Acceleration

GRASP is a framework for product cycle acceleration, comprising four elements: Goal, Resource Assessment, Strategy, and Plan. It aims to provide a quick overview of design and development effort, highlighting the importance of resource assessment and distinguishing between strategy and planning. The framework can be used as a complement to existing frameworks like OKRs and Agile, offering a useful perspective in the early stages of product thinking.

lcLipsum Featured in “This Week in LiveCode”

My little Lorem Ipsum plugin, lcLipsum, for LiveCode was featured in the open source newsletter for the LiveCode community, This Week in LiveCode. If you are a LiveCode developer, check it out. It’s free, versatile, and pretty useful if you are working on...

Dieter Ram’s 10 Principles for Good Design

These have appeared in a lot of places, including Wikipedia, fluidui.com, and this rather nice version using a design of Rams’ to illustrate each point. I include them here for your reference and mine. Good design: Is innovative – Rams states that...

Ideas to Inspire Blog Content

I’m making a new effort to increase the good, usable content of this site and blog, starting today. With that in mind, here are some ideas for ways to produce better, more frequent, valuable content on your blog. Set up Google Alerts. This free service from...

New Domain: charlesbuchwald.com

As part of our recent server move, we’ve switched our domain to charlesbuchwald.com The feeling is that this is a better fit with our current initiatives, as “.com” puts the emphasis on the commercial space. Also, our old “.ca” TLD was...

New Servers

Hey, hosting customers and clients, we’re moving to a new server! You should have already received an email (or other messages) with all the details. If not, and your site is down, or you are experiencing outages or other odd behaviour, then please contact us....

Linda Dobson & Associates

Charles Buchwald & Friends has completed a new website for Linda Dobson and Associates. Linda Dobson and Associates provides results-based coaching, consulting and training. “With over 20 years experience partnering with profit and nonprofit organizations,...

New Release: lcLipsum Plugin for LiveCode

Now available for free download is my latest LiveCode plugin: lcLipsum. It’s a Lorem Ipsum generator and tool for LiveCode users and developers. It provides text to use when mocking up layouts. What’s Lorem Ipsum? It’s the “fake Latin”...

lcResTool & lcMover in REVUp Newsletter

lcResTool and lcMover were mentioned in the most recent issue of the REVUp newsletter from Runtime Revolution. It’s nice to see the word getting around about these tools, and the sense of community around LiveCode. It says, I’m always happy when I discover...

WordPress Backup: BackWPup

Several of my clients have been concerned about WordPress site backups lately. We’ve tried a number of different approaches over the years. Lately I’ve come to like the BackWPup WordPress plugin. The key features, in my book, are: It’s free and open...