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,…
Installing Rmagick on Windows Using Ruby 1.8.6
Rmagick tends to be tricky to install, but on windows its relatively simple, except for the fact that if you freshly installed ruby 1.8.6, ruby gems needs to be…
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…
SAIC and the Armys Pathfinder Intelligence Application
SAIC has been a leading developer of intelligence analysis software for decades. In fact, their Pathfinder application has seen continual usage at a variety of agencies since the early…
Javascript Intellisense, Documentation, & Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas)
I’ve been working inside the quasi evil yet intriguing world of javascript for the last several weeks due to current projects and the web side of my BHAG project…
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…
Sucking in the header and footer from a remote site
How do you share a common header and footer across multiple apps? For example, you might be prototyping a new app, and want to borrow the main sites header…
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…
Ruby on windows (textmate clone and IDEs)
Ive been plowing through a lot of ruby editors for doing rails development on a windows box. I know some would say it is a lost cause. However, I…
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…