Software as a Service Hasn’t Caught On Everywhere
Sramana Mitra does a great job of summarizing several blog articles and discussions about companies that have pursued software as a service (SaaS) and the Extended Enterprise (EE, or,…
XBRL As the Escape From Spreadsheet Hell?
In a previous role, I was responsible for, among other things, creating business cases to justify future expenditures as well as for budgeting for forward fiscal years. My colleagues…
LinkedIn Finally Links Into the Rest of the World
An article in this mornings Reuters reported that LinkedIn has finally decided to open up its closed system to the rest of the world by creating a developer API…
Is Your Development Proudly Found Elsewhere?
“Proudly Found Elsewhere” is the research and development mantra of Procter and Gamble, one of the worlds largest consumer products companies. The company boasts 7,500 scientist dedicated to R&D,…
Is CMMI Overrated?
We are not a CMMI rated company. As a small business, we think it is more important to focus on delivering excellence for our customers and growing top and…
Charlottesville Needs More Nerds, Part Deux
Eric ran into some fellow Darden grads, Adam Healey and Charles Seilheimer yesterday at a local coffee shop because he was lured into a conversation about Ruby, Twitter, and…
Is Poker the Newest Venture Capitalist?
Some deep little part of nearly everyone I know has that inner burning desire to start up their own company. They dont know what they want to do, how…
Knowing when to shut down a project
Property law (at least, as taught to me by Elizabeth Scott) seeks to have owned property utilized at its highest value use. Thus, according to the basics of property…
Getting business is not an entitlement
I just came back from the National Veterans Small Business Conference and Expo. I was really impressed at the outreach that prime contractors and government agencies showed. They are…
Showing “Sphere”it
Several of our recent projects have involved different methods of data sorting, manipulation, and visualization. An example of this is now available with the University of Virginia Librarys BlacklightDL…
A Web 2.0 Bubble?
Reuters reported this morning that the number of contributors to many Web 2.0 sites such as YouTube and Flickr is much smaller than the number of people who come…
Does the virtual world equal the real world?
This is the question that the FBI is asking of Second Life as they investigate Second Lifes casinos. The three biggest casinos, according to the CNN article, make $1,500/month…