They’ve earned it! Two HMIS software solutions, a HMIS engine and work on a solution to sharing data – it’s called Project:Mercury, shhhhh!

The rest of us will go back to playing games developing mobile apps, RIA development and games! See y’all at GenCon!

Dan, You’re welcome.

It is not necessary to change.  Survival is not mandatory.  ~W. Edwards Deming

“Survival is not mandatory – you can always just quit!”  -Sgt Newcomb, USAF

At the time, I was certain he’d eat my brain…skull and all; however Sgt. Newcomb had a special task, to train recruits into soldiers.  All the running, shooting, yelling, running, cleaning, drills and running is not where the magic is.  Sgt Newcomb taught me to embrace and negotiate change.  “Put it on your calendar” says David Allen. Mark it two weeks out – a change is coming, are you ready?

The work we do today at Digital Gnomes is vastly different from the work we did in 2008.  The market place demands are different as is the economy and class of workers.  Our relationships are different.  I lost touch with a lot of great people in 2007 when our jobs were outsourced; and I’ve met some outstanding folks since then.

-Just my musings as we reboot our website and begin our 4th year of business.  We…  I am fortunate, I am honored to be here  standing on the shoulders of Giants.

Happy 2011 – are you ready?

CodeMash 2010

CodeMash is an event designed to expose developers to current tech, methods and trends across a variety of platforms and languages…it’s also held in Ohio’s largest indoor waterpark!!

See ya there!! >:0)

My friend Alan Barrett died from cancer this week.  I’ve only known him a couple years – but I knew he was mad cool when he ordered a gin and tonic at the Christmas party…that’s my drink! A fellow east coaster and awesome at bar music trivia, he carried the classic rock/punk questions like a champ!

I can’t imagine telling my daughter I’m not going to be around to see her grow up, yet Alan had two daughters he thought the world of.  I didn’t get to say goodbye.  He was my friend and I wanted him to win this thing, we had more bocce ball to play, Xbox, and bar trivia to conquer. I wanted him to win.

I’m no lecturer. You all are aware of the American Cancer Society and you know you can help. You also know you need to get THOSE check-ups – ladies and gents. Get ‘em early.

Do it.

I’m afraid though we were not immune to the Ruby on Rails vs CakePHP (or other PHP Web framework). We spent some time developing two codebases for the server and….it’s hard to pick. I want to merge them both.
For me, once I read up on the Ruby language I got sooo much more out of using RoR.  CakePHP, however plays to my PHP experience.
And I’m totally  ecstatic about the code generating and scaffolding abilities – RoR more than CakePHP – but I’d take either!

Zend’s implementation of AMFPHP is a plus for CakePHP, but Chris says Ruby has one too!
Installs for either are a breeze – we’ve been testing on SliceHost with no problemos.

Ultimately it may come down to performance. I’m hearing Rails may have some issues – but have yet t see any evidence. So we’re currently running this down and thinking about how to test both to find out…I’ll keep y’all posted about what we find.

For  the non-developers that have heard my rants and have gotten copies of the Project:Seraph functional specs through lunch bribes…I’ll have a semi-white paper for you very soon.