I was involved in a small discussion over at Joel on Software earlier this week responding to a person who was looking for a time tracking or task log tool for the developers within a small ISV (Independent Software Vendor). As usual, I responded with dotProject and the blowback was amazing. Nobody was attacking the […]
Unless you've been living in a cave for the last six months, you have probably heard about blogs. A brief primer for those out of the loop: a blog is simply a webpage that is used as a journal, soapbox, sounding board, public face, and a variety of other things. Whether your interests are on […]
For those of you who don't follow live in the dotProject forums like myself*, you may have missed the announcement that v2.0rc1 is due out by the end of the month. It has been a solid year since the last release, but major development has been happening across nearly every portion of the system. First […]
Scenario: You have just received an RFP (or Request for Proposal) from one your clients. This is a client with whom you've worked successfully in the past, kept in contact with about business trends, and have provided with a great deal of professional advice. You open your CRM tool, log the new information, and pass […]
For those of you who haven't been following the saga, one of our major projects here at CaseySoftware is to provide a integration module for dotProject and Mantis. It's still moving, but customers obviously must come first. We believe that dotProject provides a solid web interface for the tracking and management of a project throughout […]
CaseySoftware's biggest project right now involves the integration of numerous XML data sources into a single unified database. Each of the data sources consists of the same type of data, but each is in its own – sometimes proprietary – format. Please don't ask me how unencryped XML can be truly proprietary, but in the […]
Q: What's Microsoft's biggest strength? A: The fact that it is the defacto standard in desktop environments and has a fairly customizable yet standard user interface. Q: What's Microsoft's biggest weakness? A: I can't answer this one directly, but one of the arguments against Windows has been the issue of stability. My answer for years […]
After numerous different articles about the impending Venture Capital flood, I still had my doubt. I don't see the same thing as in the 90's where nearly everyone who had a webpage was getting money thrown at them, but there's enough going around to give me pause. CaseySoftware is a relatively small development house. We […]
As a regular reader of Joel On Software and heading a group prepared to go into the ASP realm with dotProject and Mantis, I read this post with great interest today. It's a long post, but I'll summarize it here: Software companies and software buyers have directly competing goals from the second the contracts are […]
If you haven't read KC's entry On Being “Thorough”, go check it out and come right back. I'm addressing the same point from a different direction. On Friday, I submitted an invoice for a huge amount of hours to our biggest customer. The contract is fixed price, but paid on an incremental basis depending on […]