Or, How to Annoy Your Customers in One Easy Step Manufacturers, web developers, coffeepot makers: anyone who actual makes stuff must have a love-hate relationship with backwards compatibility, where a product can use components of older versions of itself. This is not “planned obsolescence”, that cynical phrase getting people to buy, say, a new car every...
I’m working with a large tech firm in the real estate space to develop an API for tracking certain characteristics of real estate agents in order to display that information on a website in real time. There is a lot of techno-speak in that first sentence, so we will get back to it in...
TL;DR Data doesn’t have to be Big Data in order to make a big difference. If you find the right data and ask it the right questions, the benefits go far beyond you own work projects. Here, we took two lists of data to find condominiums who may benefit from a certain kind of...
One of the funnest and most personal projects I’ve worked is So There’s That, a lifestyle blog with professional photographer and my financee Charla Avery. For some reason I’ve picked up in the chatter out there that lifestyle blogs, if they must be used at all, are like a “starter” or something that every...
Things are always better when you do it in a team. That is, at least, the lesson that I have learned again and again, and again. Sure, someone could code a full website by themselves from start to finish. I have a few projects right now that I am building by myself, at least...