Let’s Get Ready to Rumble!!!!
Three of our team members, Eric Pugh, Michael Herndon, and Jim Nist, along with Ashish Tonse from Booz Allen Hamilton, are currently in the midst of throwing together last-minute…
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…
Subversion…it’s not just for geeks
We met Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier on the train last night going to Kelt (if youre at OSCON and you like Irish pubs, hop on Max and go to Kelt)….
Come join us at OSCON
Were going to be presenting and exhibiting at the OReilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon next week, July 23-27. Eric will be presenting on using and writing Rails…
Eric Pugh Chosen To Present at OReilly Open Source Convention
Eric Pugh has been chosen to present at the 2007 OReilly Open Source Convention on using and writing Rails plugins. OSCON is the worlds largest open source convention, with…
Why contributing back to the community is important
As a general rule, our company does not design and develop small websites. However, there is one exception. We run the website for the Middlebrook Horse Show, run by…
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…
Tech leads should lead
Our tech leads love being eyeball deep in code because they love being coders. However, sometimes this creates problems because we need them to lead multiple projects. When tech…
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…