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I have watched over the past year or two how almost every fellow “super nerd” has moved from Utah Valley for jobs elsewhere. In fact, I found that there is a massive shortage of quality developers/engineers here and it isn’t getting better. Here are my thoughts on why this is, and I think [...]
Well, not entirely from the dead. Over the past three months I have had my head down with designing, building, and debugging the new digs at FundingUniverse.com. As a company we have learned a lot about building a successful subscription based service, and working as a team to get it done.
Just this last [...]
My wife was driving me to work today, as our other car has been on imaginary blocks for awhile, and I noticed a new fancy rock sign by a local apartment complex. The name has been changed to protect the guilty, but let’s call it ‘Divinity Apartments’. Then I started thinking about all [...]
As I and the rest of the people in our company have been working on legal documents I kept thinking of how ridiculous the barrier has become for performing simple corporate tasks. This “hedge” extends beyond the legal profession and has reached all parts of society. In many ways I think it is [...]
I have been thinking a lot lately about the value of fictional books in the lives of adults. I have a special place in my heart for fiction, yet I have found in the business world I am amongst the minority. Business books are all good, but a pure diet of them does [...]
Today I was working on a big programming project and was working on a specific problem that many people have told me cannot be done without a lot of painful backend work among other things. In a nutshell, it is the problem of logging in to a different domain remotely while still retaining session [...]
I often find that my role in whatever company or situation I am working in changes many times over the course of a few months. It often depends on the status of development or projects we are working on. Sometimes this can be very frustrating, but I have realized that you just need [...]
I am surprised how often I run into or hear about execs of large and small technology and Internet companies that know absolutely nothing about their product nor can they understand when their CTO or other technology worker explains something that is relevant to their business. They probably hold the excuse that it doesn’t [...]
I have always been stubborn, and could often be called slightly
anti-establishment. I guess I have the idea that my respect is only earned
when someone has shown me their skills personally. Too many in this world,
and especially in the business world, rest on their laurels. I have never
much cared for people spouting about their previous business [...]