Been a Long Time
It has been a number of months (almost three) since I last posted anything. I apologize to my diligent readers, but life has been more than crazy. And, anything I needed to say was already being said by every other Blogger out there.A few things to note:
1. We have moved to a new location, at 5102 29th Drive, in Lubbock, TX. So far, it's only been an "OK" move. I pondered purchasing the building from the landlord; it's valued at about $266,000. However, he claims it's really worth more than $425,000. My friends in the real estate business say that this is hog wash.
2. Just prior to our move, we hired another intern ... a high school senior who has the makings of an exceptional developer. Though I can only get him about 25 hours, per week ... this is sufficient for my needs at the moment.
3. We have moved to utilize Spring in some new applications we are working on. So far, the developers are happy. I personally am just now getting up to speed, and they've already moved onto looking at possibilities with AJAX. We're looking at possibilities with various AJAX libraries. And, the Thinkcap JX product is looking very interesting.
4. We quickly looked at, and then discarded, Ruby. Though it looks very good, we don't think it yet has a critical mass of various add-on products that it might need (like business rule processing, etc...). We'll stick with a Tomcat / Spring / Hibernate stack for now.
5. Two of our developers are neck deep in a new online scheduling application, which is looking to be produced sooner, rather than later. And we're VERY excited about it.
6. We're very seriously looking at outsourcing development of a few of our other projects, and focus more of our efforts on the requirements / design / sales of the product. ELance.com comes to mind. RentACoder.com seems to be smaller projects. Anyone else have any good ideas?
I've been spending most of my "consulting time" with our main client in New York, training him, his employees, and his sales consultants on how to work smarter, not harder. Also, a fair amount of time has been spent on analyzing his (what appears to be) unique workflow. At a second glance, it's quite generic, and we're hoping to be able to apply the same processes to a more generic product available to SMBs (not Samba!).
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