Resources
The Value of a Technology Assessment
I know what I know if you know what I mean Edie Brickell & New Bohemians We sometimes get pushback...
Seven Resolutions for 2018
Last year I wrote a post about embracing resolutions around this time. I thought to do a similar post this...
The Tablecloth Trick:
How to Modernize Legacy Software
Change is constant. Your business priorities shift, personnel come and go, and the technology you built your product with evolves...
Learning Cultures: Beyond Agile
“Agile” has dominated the conversational, transformational, and practical aspects of technology development for over a decade now, and its history...
Cloud Native Changes Everything
It’s December 2017. You’ve probably already migrated your legacy infrastructure to the cloud, got yelled at by your CFO for...
Smash Technical Debt
We know technical debt is bad. As Rick Garvin wrote in Headwinds: Legacy Technology’s Invisible Drag, it “can reduce your...
Giving Thanks for Lessons Documented
Just as with Thanksgiving dinner, your business may have tasks that occur on a regular basis, but not often enough...
The Annual Checkup
Why You Need an Objective Assessment Just as you go to the doctor to check for hidden health issues each...
Headwinds: Legacy Technology’s Invisible Drag
Like a beautiful sailboat covered in barnacles below the waterline, obsolescent legacy technology can reduce your company’s velocity, productivity and...
Don’t get spooked by defects
The last way you want to find a product defect is from the customer. Boo! Even tiny errors, such as...
The Steady Stream of New Products from AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has long been the leader in Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). However, there’s been a veritable...
Python Virtual Environments
Overview Python Virtual environments are tools that can isolate a workspace in order to maintain project dependencies. Without this, packages...
The Compressed Java Zip Solution
Recently, I had a requirement on a project to systematically zip up a directory of reports to be stored on...
Introduction to Java 8 Streams API
One of the key features introduced in Java 8 is the Streams API. Streams allow parallel processing of Collections and...
Taming of the Subselect: Three ways to use this troublesome SQL Query
Subselects can be used in many ways: filtering, retrieving specific data, and creating custom joins. Writing effective SQL using subselects,...
Using CGLIB with proxy-target-class=”true”
In this post, we are going to take a technical deep dive into the world of Java, AOP, and Bytecode in...
Alden Hart Wins Executive Management Award
SmartCEO has named Ten Mile Square’s Alden Hart as a winner of its Executive Management Award for CXOs. This is...
Angular 1 or 2: Which is the Best for Your Project?
With Angular 2 coming out of beta, it is now available as a front end framework for your new project....
You say you want a Website… (Part 1)
Well, you know, we all want to change the world. One of the first tasks people tackle when starting a...
Software vs The Evil Forces of Entropy
Requirements evolve, technology evolves, processes evolve, and users evolve. So why is it that the systems, applications, and their underlying...
6 Out of Scope Ways to Add Value to your Company and Clients
It seems to go without saying that adding value is important. As consultants, we add value through our work; otherwise, our...
Web Accessibility Should Be a Goal for All Sites
For many businesses, web accessibility is viewed as more of a hassle or statutory requirement than a good business practice....
Running Successful Technology Assessments
These days, almost every business relies on technology products and platforms to run daily operations and meet its goals. Unfortunately, your...
Investor Presentations, Part 2: The Nine Rules for Making Your Pitch
Per Part 1 of our musings on Investor Presentations, writing your investor presentation is actually the easiest part of raising funds;...
Investor Presentations, Part 1: Building Your Winning Pitch
High quality investment funds see hundreds of business plans a year and even more executive summaries; however, they fund maybe...
Springing the JSON Template into Postgresql
Two popular open source components used in full stack development are Spring and Postgres. Spring gives the developer a plethora...
Congratulations! Your Company Is Now a Scaleup
It’s late on a Friday afternoon in the summertime, and, as the CEO of a hot startup, you should be...
The Gettysburg Address and Developing the Right Product
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address is a perfect product. In under 300 words, Lincoln synthesized all of the arguments for why...
Customizing in LimeSurvey: A Developer’s Perspective
From door to door canvassing to electronic questionnaires, surveys are a tried and true way to collect customer information. There...