If you’re not familiar with WinDirStat, you should be.  It’s a fabulous little utility that makes it a cinch to visualize the amount of drive space your files are taking up.  It’s currently listed on Scott Hanselman’s 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows (and has been on his list of [...]

We gathered last week over lunch to hear our own Mike Hurd describe his new role in the company which involves managing process for how we do work. Processes for any company are important; but when you are growing quickly in a fast moving industry like software,

  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 [...]

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 [...]

Today is the chili contest at igNew with one our our best clients Kwantek. We’re all competitive…even with chili. It should be awesome.

  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 [...]

  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?  [...]

iOS development isn’t known for being easy for most people getting started, but one thing they got right was how easy it is to set up a development environment using XCode. With Android new developers look forward to being able to use tools and languages that they either currently use or have used in the past. While [...]

I would love to hand over an application to the client that has no bugs in it.  In reality, every time our company completes a project, we’re confident that in fact there are no bugs… sort of. We test and we fix bugs, but we also realize testing is not about perfection.  It’s about getting [...]

We’ve all come across these scenarios.  We have the perfect design, the perfect code, an unbelievably intuitive and easy to use interface, and then bam! Someone mentions some special case you hadn’t thought of or because you’re an obsessive programming perfectionist, you think of some off the wall scenario yourself.