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 [...]

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 [...]

Great examples of hand sketches for web and mobile applications. Some free apps and templates in the links too.

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.

It seems obvious; the goal of business is to make money.  Unfortunately in the software industry we hear a lot of this:  “it costs too much”, “your rate is too high”, “we can’t afford to do that it’s not in the budget.”