I have to admt that prior to the last couple months, my involvement on the funding side of startups was essentially non-existent. I've always been on the development side of things… cutting code, making sure code works, or managing small teams. The funding is a whole other world… The best thing is that friend and […]

I generally don't use this space to get quite this personal, but after an enlightening conversation yesterday and this being Christmas Eve, I figured "why not?" In a gross overgeneralization, one of the problems with an engineer mindset like mine is that we tend to follow formulas. We learn early on that formulas work, they're […]

I wrote about this topic six months ago – Blogging Strategy – and had an update on a few different efforts. So blogging about blogging… yes, get over it. 😉 So six months has passed… has anything changed? Do more organizations get it? Are more organizations trying it? Are more organizations engaging with their customers, […]

Getting closer… I still can't announce our official web2project release date, but there are two major things that were just marked off the todo list based on the amazing effort of Pedro… Table Prefixes – This seems like such a silly thing. In this day of cheap shared hosting, why in the world would you […]

When people are just getting started working from home, they go one of two ways: a) They are wildly productive without the constant barrage of calls, officemates, random PA announcements (yes, some companies do them), and the various other things that interrupt their day; OR b) They are wildly unproductive with the constant barrage of […]

In case you don't follow the WhyGoSolo blog, last night was a big time for us… not just big, huge. It was our unofficial launch party. We've kept a great deal of things and portions of the site close to our chests for a long time, but last night the world (well, people attending the […]

I've thrown around the term more and more lately, sometimes it results in blank stares, sometimes knowing chuckles, but more often than not, it results in stories.  For the handful of you who aren't familiar with the term, here you go: Guerilla Development is when software development has to occur under the radar, off the […]

Almost every day, someone passes me a link to a study or article worth a chuckle and then gets prompty filed away or deleted.  It's not that the thought it unwanted or unappreciated, just that they often don't elicit further thought.  Late last week, I received a link that was just the opposite. Dennis McDonald […]

A couple weeks ago, I started on a bit of tirade discussion about version control that turned into a short series – Version Control and You Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 – and while that series may expand later, I'm moving onto the next step of the process…. Deployment! For some people, the […]

I've always considered Improvisation as one of my biggest and most important skills. I know how to engage people and talk in front of a group. In tech circles – which I've been in since during college – this has always made me a bit of an oddity… In ancient times (high school), I went […]