I have spent the past couple of days beating my head against the brick wall of software development tracking tools that exists, only to come up empty handed. There is one thing that all of the applications out there have in common, and that is that they all do the same thing. They are comodoties, with nothing fundamentally [...]
Sitting in a weekly team meeting this morning, I had to ask for clarification after hearing with disbelief how not one, but multiple vendors of ours process membership applications. Here is the long and short version of this: The vendor receives an XML file containing applications submitted through an online application form. Next, the data [...]
Novell/Xamarin Partnership around Mono This is what makes the world go ’round: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Jul-18.html That’s all I can say right now…definitely more to come. //T Share this Post[?]
Up until the past couple of weeks, I have essentially been a one-man development shop, making the task of tracking requests, bugs, issues, etc…and managing version control relatively simple. Business is growing rapidly for us, requiring more development resources to be brought on board to support the resulting projects, requiring a new set of processes [...]
Over the weekend, I attended Mobile March 2011 at the Best Buy headquarters here in Minneapolis/St. Paul. This was a great event with even greater potential. To me, this also describes where mobile is today—great, but with even greater potential. It feels a lot like 1995 all over again in more ways than one, but [...]
Image via Wikipedia Recently, I have been putting thought into what Shepard Road should really look like, what to focus on and what will provide the most relevance and value given the passion, skills and tools that I currently have. There is a lot of overlap between my profession and my passions, which in no [...]
Image by Ivan Walsh via Flickr For those of you who are thinking about doing a PPC campaign using direct linking with Google AdWords, don’t. You are wasting your time. The fact is that it has been against Google’s TOC’s for a while and sometime around the beginning of April, they implemented measures to help [...]
Image by Getty Images via Daylife We are currently in the process of re-organizing the site, kind of like moving furniture around the room and getting rid of things that really amount to clutter as we settle in. The past several weeks have been spent evaluating what we do, how we do it and what [...]