links, random thoughts, various opinions
So we moved offices this week. Finally. It’s been a long and amazing five years. Our new office is great (and probably much nicer than I’m used to or expected). It will be great for us as a company, and for our customers … I think we’ll be more productive (really). […]
47873″>Building A Standards Compliant Website (3)
“People in the shipping industry who already use Navarik’s products, and want to know more about who made them. (Many of these users might work with Navarik’s software every day, but not know it until they notice a small “Service by Navarik” link at the bottom of a page. Since […]
Our company launched a new web site today that I think does a much better job of explaining what we do…or at least the depth of it. In the end it was a process that brought a nice focus to what we’ve built in four years and are capable of doing now and in […]
Shake Your Groove Thing
“They are not afraid if a few turn out to be flops. Finding great new product ideas for Google is a statistical process. Google is investing in good people and is letting them be creative.”
Our company has been in business coming up four and half years now. I’m pleased that the […]
Amazon Evolves
“Perhaps this is old news, but I hadn’t seen it before: Amazon now lists products from not only itself and its zShops merchants, but other online stores (traditionally called competitors), as well. Not only that, I put something in my shopping cart, only to discover upon checkout that I was actually buying it from […]
Without me even realizing it the three year anniversary of the company my friends and I started zipped by this week. It was actually the official incorporation anniversary, we actually started it around February. I missed the official date probably because we were so busy releasing our latest major system and I finally […]
Fixing Venture Capital - Definitely worth reading the whole thing. I have so many opinions on this I’m unsure where to start. Have to go chase our list of potential customers (and investors for that matter ) now anyways…so no time.
Why Scripting Languages Matter
Tim O’Reilly: “Unlike applications from the previous paradigm, web applications are not released in one to three year cycles. They are updated every day, sometimes every hour. Rather than being finished paintings, they are sketches.” [Ranchero]
We’ve been having a huge debate at work lately. Mainly a question of whether […]
I’m not sure what InfoPath is (yet) but this post on how much business logic is in Excel is so true. Now to figure out what he’s talking about.
…Read a bit more about InfoPath from Microsoft here. Perhaps a client side form for event entry via XML would make our users happy…:) […]
How Google Grows?
“Rule Number Four: Great People Can Manage Themselves
Google spends more time on hiring than on anything else. It knows this because, like any bunch of obsessive engineers, it keeps track. It says that it gets 1,500 resumes a day from wanna-be Googlers. Between screening, interviewing, and assessing, it invested 87 Google people-hours in […]
My SQL a threat to bigwigs?”
“MySQL lacks many features big companies want for using it with applications that are central to their business, like manufacturing or finance software from companies like SAP. But it is getting inexorably better thanks to all those helpers bequeathed by its business model. Says open-source expert Stacey Quandt at the […]
Although it seems that me (most of all) doesn’t appreciate this I do. We want to be advocates for the best, the most elegant solution. Just let me/us know what we have to sell…
Elegance always pays off. In the short term it might seem like it takes much longer to come up with […]