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January 26th, 2016
The year was 2007, I had just quit my high-paying job at a big tech firm and was beginning to construct the software for my first startup to build a social reminder site, one that would help you remember all the stuff you needed to do in your personal life. It wasn’t good enough […]
January 21st, 2016
Front End Developer Job Description Are you looking for a great opportunity where you can showcase your skills and talents? We are seeking talented software engineers to join our Solution Street team! We are a company comprised of software developers and the partners of Solution Street are developers too! Our team is rapidly […]
December 28th, 2015
Most developers are self-described as better than average. I have always loved the study that showed almost 80% of drivers felt that they were better than most. How can that be? Obviously, the reality of that statement can’t be true. What I’m fascinated with is how most people aren’t realistic and overestimate their own […]
November 16th, 2015
“No Silver Bullet” is a widely discussed paper on software engineering written by Turing Award winner Fred Brooks in 1986. This paper argued that there is no single development tool or management technique which can improve efficiency by an order of magnitude. If this is true, since the Agile Manifesto in 2001, why have we […]
October 28th, 2015
In 2000, Joel Spolsky wrote a popular article on why you should never rewrite your application. The use case of Netscape’s browser was a powerful example of what not to do. This certainly made a lot of sense then and still does now…well mostly. Recreating the Netscape browser from scratch was a complete redo. It […]
September 29th, 2015
When our clients ask me where they should host, I often think of the old IBM marketing term, no one gets fired for buying IBM. I think this is the approach many people use when choosing a hosting provider, but we have found big companies are not always the best option. To implement a […]
August 26th, 2015
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the future. Not so much in terms of flying cars or the iPhone 1000, but rather how important is it to select the right architecture components for building an enterprise system that will last way into the future – maybe 20-30 years? There’s lots of blog articles on […]
July 27th, 2015
Wikipedia defines a coding cowboy as software development where a programmer has autonomy over the development process. This includes control of the project’s schedule, languages, algorithms, tools, frameworks and coding style. Not all coding cowboys are bad, some are quite good at getting things done, but many of them can create a “cliff” situation […]
June 24th, 2015
When I first started programming professionally in the 80’s, there were just a few choices for building mission critical applications. For the most part, I was taught on an IBM Mainframe with a 3270 terminal. These were those “green screens” where the User Interface was considered a by-product of the actual system. Much of the complexity and […]
May 22nd, 2015
Hiring great talent is one of the hardest problems in business. It’s even harder to find technical talent given the limited pool of candidates and a high demand for them. As an entrepreneur, who is also a software developer, I understand and can relate to both sides of the spectrum. The time to fill for […]
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