One of the hardest things that any software product company has to do is balance the needs of today with the potential needs of tomorrow. Answers to how the business will scale in the future are largely unknown in the early going, creating the dilemma of either building just what you need for today and […]

It seems most every decision in building technology products (or probably any business) revolves around one of these two constraints, often times both. However, you invariably have less of one than the other. If you’re building your technology product and have lots of time but no money, what should you do? Learn how to build […]

Each month I provide a list of resources (podcasts, talks, blog posts, books, music etc.) that I consider to be must-haves. There’s no doubt that you’ll see recurring themes or resources throughout these posts. I publish my Must-Haves on the closest Tuesday or Friday to the 15th of every month. Without further ado, here’s January […]

I was in Austin, TX last week doing some work with one of my favorite companies, Telestax (I am an advisor). Telestax is an open-source project in the telecom space, and arguably one of the most successful open source projects in the world today. Anyway, enough pitching! If you’re ever around true open source people, […]

Refactoring is a core concept in software development. A guy named Martin Fowler literally wrote the book on the topic, and he defines refactoring as “A controlled technique for improving the design of an existing codebase.” Good software developers are always looking for ways to do the things they did before better. Minor refactoring is […]