There are MANY powerful, robust, and flexible packages out there both for the desktop and the web. Software such as Apache, sendmail, iptables, and a variety of other things serve as much of the backbone of much of the Internet, whether users realize it or not. Along the lines of web-based applications, there are my […]
After working through all of the outstanding issues with all of the contracting work for CaseySoftware, we are about to start full steam on the dotProject development. Our projected timeline is below. I believe that by making it public, it will provide some transparency into our organization and hopefully demonstrate the commitment of CaseySoftware to […]
Normally CEO would handle a topic such as this, but I've been personally involved in it now, so I'm handling this round. When you are contracting with the Federal Goverment (maybe State too, not sure), they require audit logs of just about every financial transaction imaginable. It makes sense, they want to make sure they […]
I know I'm not the first and I certainly won't be the last, but I've decided to review Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks anyway. Unless you are in the technology realm, you probably haven't heard of it. Even if you are in the technology realm, you might not have heard of it. Therefore, it […]
I turned on the ads for the blog this morning. After choosing a reasonable color scheme and inserting the block into Drupal, I noticed something. Click around and see if you notice it. Due to my partner's initials (not to be repeated here), on many of the pages, advertisements for a particular band are displayed. […]
May you have a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and/or a Happy Hannukah. Just another update, the Mantis/dotproject integration is frozen until tomorrow, then work will begin again. As I have found in the detailed logs, there are many people finding this site due to mentions of SugarCRM – a very effective single organization CRM […]
Agile Methodologies, Evolutionary Development, Test Driven Development, Waterfall, etc have nothing on my brand new development methodology: Guess & Check. Yes, you've heard me right, Guess & Check Development. It's much simpler than any of the other practices. It doesn't require requirements. It doesn't require testing. It doesn't even require customer involvement… as long as […]
Well, the new hosting provider is online (Thanks Joel!) so there is some potential downtime coming within the next week or so. I've got everything set up on that end, I just need to flip the switches, but I'm not going to be watching very carefully once I go on vacation next week. Oh yeah, […]
Just like everyone else, I've applied and interviewed for a development job or ten. You know the situation… you kick off your resume, get a time for an interview, walk in with another copy of your resume, and talk about your past projects. If the interviewer subscribes to the Microsoft Model of interviewing, they may […]
For those of you who haven't seen this article, check it out. Essentially, a lawyer is working to convince the Court that software can be protected adequately via Patents instead of Copyrights. This article does not say who he is working for or who is aligned on each side of the case, but I have […]