The secrets of a system integrator. My Journey of Startup, Product + Project Development
Having a profitable business alone isn’t success.
Every business needs cashflow (and profit) to survive like the body needs oxygen, food, and air. Just because a business has cashflow, doesn’t mean it’s a success, much like we aren’t a success in life just because we sat around and survived.
I recently decided to switch over to it full time instead of using Entourage 2008 and discovered a strange crash with Apple Mail whenever I’d try to start it up.
Trying to start Apple Mail would leave me with a message of “Mail had quit unexpectedly.”..
A distant lightbulb went off in my head and I realized it might have to do with my Marketcircle Daylite software and it’s plugin to the Apple Mail, and the Daylite server, which syncs my calendar, todo, projects and contacts automatically over the air.
In creating software, be it a startup or a client project, key decisions need to be made and implemented based on security.
In the world of security I have learnt a few things, usually the long way.
Happy New Year!
The past few weeks I’ve been thinking about how I’d like to continue to build in 2010.
Whether you are on the business side of technology, or the implementation side, there are some common elements to all projects no matter the viewpoint.
Great software systems:
Make users great. Make your users awesome at what they do [...]
I received this funny comic and it got me thinking…..
I have often wondered how a relationship between specialist (Web, designer, programmer, etc.,) can sometimes turn into the customer believing they understand everything better than the specialist, and how to do it.
This is when phrases like:
“Couldn’t you just..”
“All you have to do..”
“It should be pretty simple..”
“Can’t we make it really simple on the screen? Why would that be more work to do it all behind the scenes?”
become more, and more common.
Problem? I don’t know.
Anyone who doesn’t purchase extended warranty from Apple for their Macs needs to read this.
I put a lot of time on my 15″ Macbook Pro. An average of 8-10 hours a day. Every day. The last 3 years since I switched back to Mac (since we all started on Apples in elementary school) have been incredible. No longer have I been tied up dealing with Windows to do the smallest things like connect a new camera to get a photo to fight with drivers. For the most part Mac just works, gets out of the way and let’s you focus on the task at hand.
Then, there was the day the music died. November 16th, 2009, for me, to be exact. I remember it, like it was yesterday. I am working at the office, no problems. Arrive at a clients, and the screen won’t turn on. Try to reboot, no luck. Everything seems to be turning on, except the screen. Strange.
Information technology is the art of managing an organization’s processes by establishing and maintaining computing frameworks.