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Category Archives: Business Side
Do you Really Need Custom Software?
Custom software is expensive to build and usually delivered late and overbudget. Custom software, like a garden, needs to maintained and frequently updated. Especially for security updates. Everyone, well almost everyone, forgets to budget time and money for maintenance. Before … Continue reading
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My Takeaway from Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
Book: Talking to StrangersAuthor: Malcolm Gladwell This book has a lot of stories that include a police stop gone wrong, pyramid scheme, Cuban spies, drinking, sexual assault, and torture. A bit hard to follow all the different stories and pick out … Continue reading
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SMALL BUSINESS AND THE THREE CONTRACTORS
Check out this post I wrote for Corgibytes about balancing maintenance work with new features when modernizing software. Special thanks go out to my fellow Corgis for their constructive feedback. They convinced me keep the overall idea but re-write my … Continue reading
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Closed for Family Vacation
Saturday MP is a small family business and like your local family run restaurant the entire family is involved in some way. Currently it’s mostly me working at Saturday MP but Ada helps with some book keeping and in the … Continue reading
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Odds Are you Work for a Small Business
If I was a betting man I would bet you work for a small company (99employees or less). Odds are I would be right half the time. How did I come up with those numbers? Using some math and stats … Continue reading
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Importance of Spouses in Small Businesses
Starting a new business is hard. In 2010 study just over half of new business in Canada survive 5 years or more and only 30% survive 10 years. Similar statics for our neighbours in the south. Saturday Morning Productions has been … Continue reading
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Edmonton .NET User Group Survey
If you are part of the Edmonton .NET User Group or are thinking of joining then please fill out this survey. The survey will help us plan out the 2017-2018 year. The survey will only take a couple minutes so … Continue reading
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Sabbatical is Over, Looking for Work
The leaves are starting to change, the days are getting shorter, and the garden is ready to harvest. That means fall is here in all it’s glory. It also means my summer sabbatical is over. I spent my sabbatical teaching … Continue reading
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Thank You Liv
After almost a year hard work Liv has reached her goal and been accepted to the Edmonton Police Service (EPS). Needless to say she was a bit excited when she got the call. Unfortunately joining the EPS means Liv no … Continue reading
Do you Still Need to Compress Pictures?
I hope you had a great summer vacation. We sure did and are trying squeeze in a mini-vacation before the summer is officially over after the Labour Day long weekend. Now that your summer vacation is over you want to … Continue reading
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