In 2012 we shut down our startup. It was devastating and emotionally draining. Walking away from something you’ve put your blood sweat and tears into is a gut wrenching experience. Fortunately we had a team with a skillset so we pivoted to being a software consulting business. Hooray, we’re saved! Very quickly we signed a …
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Kids these days. Am I right? They have no idea how good they’ve got it. These young engineers just entering the workforce have easy compared to what us old guys had to work with. Sitting in a coffee shop with their stickers covering their sleek, lightweight laptops have no idea what it’s like to have …
Retro computers: 8 things we grew up on that younger techies missed Read More »
Pick a framework, any framework. Implement it and boom, you’re already miles ahead of where we geezers started when this new breed of young developers was in diapers. Hell, we didn’t even have libraries, let alone a fully fleshed out Javascript to rely on. When we were their age, we stared at a blinking cursor …
When the iPhone came out, Apple was crowned the king of mobile. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Back in the early 2000’s designers were having an experimental free-for-all trying to figure out how a website should look and function. Then in 2007 the iPhone was released introducing the world to the concept of apps. …
Apple’s App Store Problem – and How They Can Fix It Read More »
Now that this dumpster fire of a year is just about coming to the end, it’s time we look to next year and what we can expect. This last year was interesting to watch as we saw huge advances in technology like VR, AI, and autonomous-driving cars. Microsoft made huge strides this year in clawing …
2017 and Beyond – Four Predictions for Technology Read More »
