Lot’s of new features announced and coming soon at the PlaybookIQ product blog.

Yes, I said “Love-It”. Even with no flash, low megapixel, no zoom, no movies, no tripod mount, and no sound. All of its shortcomings are overshadowed by *accessibility* and *ease of photo uploading*.
Prior to the iPhone, I would always notice small shots I would like to take — but found [...]

Here’s the book that has gotten me interested in blogging again.
Just like a good blog, “Blog Blazers” is full of timely information written in a very readable format. The question and answer format is surprisingly effective and Stephane Grenier presents the expertise in a very practical, actionable, motivational, and entertaining format.
Whether you read “Blog Blazers” [...]

I have moved the PlaybookIQ blog to the Synap Software servers. The PlaybookIQ product blog is now at: http://synapsoftware.com/crm.

Update: My entry in the RailsRumble was BidBuildBill.com.  It fared well, coming in 3rd among Solo apps.
Rails Rumble is a “48 hour design/develop/deploy competition”. The 2008 Rails Rumble is the weekend of October 18th and 19th (GMT) and the Rails Rumble blog is now online. The organizers explain the rumble this way.
For those of [...]

From an article I wrote in 2006, here are some ways small software companies should rejoice in and respond to the Innovator’s Dilemma (Amazon). Listed here are principle causes of company failure as identified by Christensen. In response to each one, I have identified how these pitfalls can be avoided, and indeed exploited, [...]

Morph Labs and FiveRuns Partner
Mor.ph is a scalable cloud-computing deployment “Platform as a Service (PaaS) ” with features like backups, distributed processing, and 99.9% reliability built-in. FiveRuns “provides simple and affordable products for monitoring Rails applications and their supporting infrastructure.”
I have used both companies’ products and services and am excited to see they will be [...]

NetBeans
Started using NetBeans for development this week. So far, so good. Things I have found useful:

Inline, real-time syntax error checking (no more missing ‘end’ statements or misspelled keywords at test or runtime – catch them while typing and in the ‘flow’ instead).
Code completion, including model attributes (was that attribute name [...]

Here is a summary of PlaybookIQ updates this week.
List Export
PlaybookIQ users can search by any contact field, by tag, and by combination of tags. The search results can then be exported as a csv file. This is a powerful way to create lists for email or postcard mailing providers such as Vertical [...]

Here is a summary of PlaybookIQ updates this week.
List Export
PlaybookIQ users can search by any contact field, by tag, and by combination of tags. The search results can then be exported as a csv file. This is a powerful way to create lists for email or postcard mailing providers such as Vertical [...]