Portland Departure – Farewell Stumptown Off I go on a plane from Portland, Oregon to Las Vegas, Nevada for the MIX 2010 Conference. Before I even boarded the plane I met Paul Gomes a Senior Software Engineer and Andrew Saylor the Director of Business Development. Both of these SoftSource Employees were en route to MIX... Continue reading →

Keeping a software developer/engineer motivated is a difficult task for managers, directors, all the way up to the VP. One of the common issues that comes up, that leaves an engineer unhappy with their lot in a company is conflicting tasks. Engineers often, especially senior engineers, can handle multiple tasks at a particular time. But... Continue reading →

I was listening away to some ear blistering metal, as I often do, and an ad really jumped out at me. If you can?t see what is written in the HTC ad to the right, click on the image. What is displayed is a cross-correlation of several points of analytics data. Before I jump right... Continue reading →

Again, conversations give me a zillion things to write about. The recent conversation that has cropped up again is my various viewpoints of the Agile Manifesto. Not all the processes that came after the manifesto was written, but just the core manifesto itself. Just for context, here is the manifesto in all the glory. We... Continue reading →