A brief exploration of the radical differences in contract software engineering quotes. Software companies are everywhere these days. If you add in the number of freelancers on contractor sites, craigslist, or the guy your friend knows, they are like grains…
Startup Bus: Bootcamp for Tech Entrepreneurs
Adapted from my 2018 Ignite Talk For most people in the tech world, life can be fairly drab They sit in cubicles, at insurance companies, writing code, designing their millionth, mind numbing button, or making cold calls to hostile schmucks…
Are Platform Technologies A Scam?
Can someone actually explain to me what Sharepoint does? If I worked in Microsoft’s sales department the best pitch I could give is: “It’s the greatest, most versatile product that has ever existed. You can use it to run any…
iOS Push Notifications in Airplane Mode
I work a lot with the cruise ship industry, and one of the more interesting challenges we run into is that often there are user-facing systems that have to work without an Internet connection. I’ve designed applications that are supposed…
5 tips for launching your first app
Almost everyone wants to have an app these days. But how do you go about finding the right designers, programmers, and marketers to take your app from an idea to millions of downloads in the app store? Validate your idea….
Setting up a Star SP500 Wireless Printer
The wonderfully undocumented SP500 printer with wireless Ethernet connection has been the bane of my existence for the last few days. So I have the IFBD-HW03/04 model, which isn’t even mentioned really in the manual. That means that my firmware…