I happened across a simple fix to an annoying problem today and I thought I’d share.  Have you ever been coding away in Visual Studio and reached for the Escape key and accidentally fat-fingered the F1 key?  Your mileage may vary, but for me, that’s a good time to go get a coke or [...]

This post is intended to help companies and individuals understand their options when they are faced with getting a quality software application/website built on time and on budget using a third party. This is part 1 of a 2 part series in exploring the advantages and disadvantages associated with local outsourcing, offshoring, nearshoring and onshoring [...]

The time is here again in Louisville to gather 500 of the best software developers from around the country for a few days in March. We are a proud sponsor of CodepaLOUsa again this year and are looking forward to hosting 58 guest speakers covering almost 70 breakout sessions. Tickets are going fast, so head [...]

MIT has announced a free online learning initiative called MITx which which will be available to anyone in spring of 2012. Students who show a “mastery” of subjects will receive a certificate of completion issued through a not-for-profit body under the MITx program.

Don’t be that guy at a social event who’s only mission is to disperse the 200 newly inked biz cards that were just printed for your newco. I understand the urgency to spread your idea but you won’t make allies by approaching each new person in the room like you are a dealer at a [...]

In today’s society, we’re constantly trained that hustle is to be respected. The word conjures up images of players diving for loose balls, managers running from office to office to see as much of what’s going on as possible, workers doing three tasks at once to get more done that day. Yet, with hustle comes [...]

  Since I got my Lenovo ThinkPad T410 (64-bit Windows 7), I’ve had Wi-fi connectivity issues.  It would connect and I could stay online for five minutes or so and then I’d get the exclamation point icon in the system tray.  Sometimes I could just keep refreshing a web browser for a couple of minutes [...]

It’s all about purpose and intent The best way to think about the difference between a web application and a website is to ask yourself what is it being used for; or what is it’s purpose. If the sole purpose is to market or advertise a service or product, then we call those websites. If [...]

If you lead, manage or direct software development at your company, you should come out tonight and meet others like yourself in the Louisville community. We’ve organized a group of people from various companies in Louisville who value bouncing technology ideas and strategies off of one another in an informal setting. We’ve had two successful [...]

  Have you ever wanted to download a trial version of something from a vendor, or a zip file full of source code from a forum, but you have to register with the site first?  Even if you’ve never been to the site before and probably won’t be again after you get that one download?  [...]