A few months ago, I was at a Christian Leadership Conference by the Willow Creek Association where a slightly-hyper-Brit by the name of Marcus Buckingham spoke about his book: Now, Discover Your Strengths or simply NDYS. He discussed leadership patterns across different companies, the satisfaction of individuals within organizations, how these affect motivation and effectiveness, […]
So I guess I finally admit it, I'm weak. After last week's whirlwind adventure and 60+ hours of working, I took the weekend off from posting mostly to rest, recuperate, and experience the joy of various Christmas Parties. No, I have no shame in saying it because that's what they were. Anyway, CEO and I […]
We've all seen it, we've all been stuck in it. You look at an application, a widget, a feature, or a class and you think “Why did they do THAT? I could do this much better myself!” Quite often you might be right. There is all kinds of crap code out there. No way to […]
With KC on the road this week, I am encountering the difficulty that more and more Project Managers are running into: a Distributed Development Team. It's every Managers' not-so-secret fear that when the team is seperated by physical distance – and even worse, timezones or cultures – productivity is hurt, communication is weakened, and deadlines […]
As I described before, last week I was forced to fork the codebase on an application that I had previously built a role-based permissions system to handle the variations between the systems. Well, as I have predicted, development has continued in all four versions and I am being told to merge all of the updates […]
After working a 10 hour day with a 30 minute break for lunch yesterday, we took another 2 hours off and came back to the office until 11pm. I'm building a Billing Module for the application that I've cultivated since the early Requirements stages. I have 8 pages of requirements, but none of them detail […]
Good Evening and Welcome to my first posting on my own blog. While KC writes and talks about many of the day-to-day operations and the technical aspects of our business, I hope to cover some of the business, economic, and political ramifications of a small Independent Software Vendor (ISV). And what better to start with […]
For those of you who may not be aware, CaseySoftware is still in the fledgling startup phase. We have few customers and no one is drawing a salary in order to preserve capital. Therefore, everyone working for CaseySoftware also holds down a regular fulltime job. Sometimes this works out quite well, but other times it […]
In my current job, I worked extensively with clients both internal and external to our group. It started as an interesting job, but steadily got more and more difficult as time went on due to the multiplicative tendency of our applications. We would initially build an application for one client. After the bulk of the […]
I started geeking around with the settings of Drupal here and have configured it as my primary RSS reader and adding a few other modules. It's really pretty nifty. To expand on my initial posting, as the Sr/Lead Developer of the company, I have my hands in every project that comes in the door. For […]