During the past year I’ve come to a conclusion about many IT professionals that make up their departments. I’ve begun calling this archetype: five button guys. A quick definition Your local five button guy walks into work and presses the same five buttons in the same application everyday. As a result, a knowable and recurring [...]

A few weeks ago I was posed with a new question. Q: What would you ask a new start-up or set of people thinking about a starting one. I believe that there are a lot people disillusioned about startups by the ‘quick success’ or the promise of short hours. There are no quick successes, nor [...]

So nerds have problems, but nerd problems are different from everybody elses. Nerd problems are low impact / high frequency while normal people problems are high impact / low frequency. In layman’s terms, when it comes to computers, normal people have relatively hard problems that take a long time to solve, but these problems are [...]

A coding standard is an important part of programming.  It lays the ground rules for how software is constructed and formatted .  This standard has the following goals. Reduce the “holy shit” factor when faced with a lot of new code. Encourage a style of making software that is more maintainable and less likely to [...]

This post started as an email to the great people at 5by5.  The email suggested that although Apple is a great company that makes great products there is still a minority they might not be be right for.  Apple products don’t solve my problems, and have a list of deal-breakers that prevent me from buying [...]