Category Archives: Development

Life Hacking

Over the last year or so, I’ve taken to heart the mindset of automating frequent / mundane tasks.  Yesterday, I realized I was constantly annoyed at dealing with my development environment when I switch locations/ IP addresses.  I’m working on a project that uses Informix, which doesn’t bind to the network in such a way [...]

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FreshBerry – The FreshBooks BlackBerry Application

[NOTE: This application has been renamed "Book Keeper" and is now available to the public at: http://www.bookkeeperapp.com ]
How’s that for a title, “Fresh” and “Berry” all over the place.  I’m finally venturing into the Micro ISV arena and building a BlackBerry application for FreshBooks.  It’s set to Beta around the end of February with a [...]

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Deploy First & Deploy Often

This is an often repeated lesson and one that I’ve personally realized lately is extremely important.  It’s like unit testing, until you either do it or suffer from not doing it, it’s hard to realize the importance of.  Two recent projects I’ve been working on have suffered greatly from not having the sever environments and [...]

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