This is the third installment of my MVP mini-series. The first part can be found here, and the second part here. Now that we’ve built the foundation, it’s time to start churning out product ideas. My goals are to complete enough of each idea to present either directly at our internal technology day, or to [...]

This is the first part of a multi-part talk about a successful use of MVP to create a framework for proving and building products quickly. I’m a huge fan of lightweight. Lightweight tools, lightweight management, lightweight processes. Weed out the overhead by not even allowing it in to the system in the first place. Thus, [...]

Yesterday marked the release of Novell’s MonoTouch. MonoTouch is essentially an iPhone SDK for .Net programmers and its purported claim is to be able to allow the developer to put C# code in one side – and have a fully functional, Apple approved, App Store ready iPhone app out on the other side. It sounds [...]

hope to be able to cut my list down a bit as far as quantities of tech go. I hate the idea of feeling too thin on something, but I’ve go so many interests, it’s hard to whittle them down sometimes.

I had to break out some perl skills today. I was little rusty as I haven’t used it in volume for 2-3 years. However, it was the right tool for the job today. One of our rainmakers needed a favor for building a conversion table from an old Chart of Accounts to the newest version. All they had was a spreadsheet of about 4000 items where column “A” housed a formula of seemingly random numbers from column “B”. The assignments from old to new were a mixture of single elements and cell ranges that made it difficult, if not impossible to handle in Excel.