Archive for May, 2007
Happy Engineers = Productive Workers
How far does your company go to make its engineer’s happy? If you take a look at Google and why it’s the number one place to work, you will see the importance of happy engineers. A lot of companies have a lot to learn from such companies on how to keep their engineers happy.
Work Environment:
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How to Balance Blogging and the Summer
For those of us that do not blog for a living, we have to find time to come up with good content. I recently started a new job, and on top of it decided to switch Operating Systems; so I have been behind in my blogging. On top of that it’s summer, the time where [...]
The End to Any Social Network Starts With the User
I am still converting all of machines over to Ubuntu, so I have been a little behind in my RSS reading.
I have been reading more and more about this ‘Digg Scandal’ that has been all of the news.
The biggest thing that one can take from this event is remembering how powerful the users are. They [...]
What to Do When Your Web Host Starts Sucking
I originally started writing this because a friend is franticly starting jump ship from a falling Web Host. It turns out that for the last several months my hosting provider, HostMySite, has been falling in quality. With any hosting provider support is the key. You need to have smart, savvy support technicians that are available. [...]
To Bundle the JRE or Not, That is The Question
In the trenches, while revamping BlueCrestStudios the question of whether to bundle the JRE with the download of our products has come up many times. Cross platform Java installers like Install4J not only make it easy to create professional application installers with ease, but bundle an isolate JRE so the user does not have one [...]
