I Can’t Hire For Sales!
Sales solves everything is an old expression I've heard since I was a kid and I have to say that I fundamentally agree with it. You really can bail yourself out of myriad business problems by simply selling more and therefore increasing top-line revenue. Like many...
Slack-pocalypse Now
Slack is great. But it’s also really good at killing productivity.
Programming Pitfalls: Cors & Spring Boot
It’s no secret that I have been dipping my toes back into the world of enterprise Java development over the last moth or so. Thankfully, I haven’t been forced to go full Java EE. In fact for enterprise development I’m getting off pretty easy in the form of Spring...
Apps, Bots & Cloud Oh My!
Apps are the newest thing! Apps are dead, long live the cloud! The cloud is old hat, it’s all about bots and machine learning now! If you follow the tech press like I do, you might be led to think that we have come through some sort of supersonic period of...
Brutal Bots
Bots are the new hotness that Microsoft, Facebook, and others hope will be the next tech phenomenon, supplanting the maturing app market. It makes sense that Facebook and Microsoft would be looking for the next big thing, since they largely missed out on the app gold...
Linux Adventure Pt 3 Skylake Hell
My adventure in the world of Linux continues and I’ve come to the point where I have purchased a Dell XPS 13 non touch and went ahead and installed Ubuntu 16.04 on it. It’s important to note that I did not spring for the Dell Developer Edition, since there was a sale...