CaseySoftware has been working this past year to help business improve their processes by the intelligence deployment and use of tools. While we predominantly support back office operations revolving around Project Management, occassionally we have a product which sneaks out and interacts directly with the customer. Under the cover of darkness these recent months, we’ve […]
The other day, I was involved in an interesting discussion in the Joel on Softare Business of Software forums. The original post was not happy with his Open Source competition and shared with everyone: There are a lot of people out there who would like to startup micro isvs but they are afraid that someone […]
Via the wonderful crew at Technorati, I manage to keep an eye out for new dotProject users to happen to blog about it. I know, this is only a small part of the community, but it's a place to start. I normally make a point of exchanging an email or two with them offering assistance […]
I was recently involved in a CMS evaluation for a rather large client. Their needs were relatively simple but overall they are driven by the lack of a robust web strategy. They have literally dozens of domain names, navigation styles, and even differing content on an entire series of sites spread throughout hosting facilities all […]
Or flavour if you prefer… I was recently speaking with another developer on a customer site about merging two projects. There is a new project which overlaps quite nicely with what his project does and many of the new requirements are “nice-to-have's” on his project. It seems to make quite a bit of sense, so […]
With one of our biggest customers right now, I'm working on a series of SMS applications. Neither is particularly complicated, but there's been an interesting disparity between developing each of them. The first one provides special alert information to your phone. The entire system is built in Java on top of a Maven/Tomcat/Struts/Hibernate stack. The […]
A few weeks ago, Chris Shiflett author of Essential PHP Security was nice enough to give me some time for an interview on CodeSnipers. I figured the least I could do is give him and the community some feedback on his book. Read on for details. I've been a software developer for quite a few […]
Prior to starting CaseySoftware, I was almost always employed by someone else working for yet another group on particular projects. These projects were for commercial, government, and internal customers, both public and private. I don't think there's anything odd or particularly special about this part of it, but there is one key thing that was […]
When software developers talk about a project, concept, or just about anything else, we normally speak in reference to models. We use analogies, we make comparisons, we have even come up with the concept of Design Patterns just to improve communication. While making comparisons can speed communication, we must choose the right comparisons and acknowledge […]