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Get out and walk around Get out and walk around to: solve problems. Today I was stuck. I had a programming/design problem that seemed to only get more complex as I sat at my desk staring at the screen. Then, during a quick 5 minute walk with the dog, the solution just popped into myContinue reading “Get out and walk around”

Following up on his famous Ruby scaling debate, Joel Spolsky, takes another shot at 37signals and other propenents of simplicity saying that “you sell ‘simple’ as if it were this wonderful thing, when, coincidentally, it is the only thing you have the resources to produce.” Even if it were true (which I do not thinkContinue reading “Simplicity, not Simplistic: 1”

In 1978, Harvard Business School and MIT graduate Dan Bricklin joined Bob Frankston to create the world’s first computer spreadsheet program. I was looking through old magazines the other day and came across my July, 1989 issue of Inc. magazine featuring Mr. Bricklin on the cover with an interview inside in which Mr. Bricklin discussedContinue reading “New, Small Software Company – Best Practices”

“Lead management is the new CRM.” Here are current screenshots of our new product, codenamed “Green”, [now released as LeadsOnRails!] Click here to see it! Many small offices and agencies: spend a lot of time and money obtaining leads, yet do not have an effective way to move the prospect through a marketing process (e.g.Continue reading “Project Green – Lead and Prospect Management for Small Businesses”

Interested in entering a random drawing for one-hundred-bucks? I don’t have any cash for you, but Ruby Insider folks might (actually – they don’t have cash for you either, only PayPal payments). Note that this is designed to encourage new material so is only for posts originally written between now and about August 19th. IContinue reading “Ruby Insider Offering Bounty to Ruby and Rails Bloggers”

Track your prospects, leads, and marketing campaigns. Track your leads with LeadsOnTracks.com. It will be a new way to put your sales and marketing efforts on track. A “track” is simply a series of steps, each step assigned to a person and given a date due. Define your tracks and help everyone on the teamContinue reading “Lead and Campaign Management, Campaign Management, Lead Management”

I attended the Denver on Rails User Group, aka “Derailed” last night at the Tattered Cover bookstore downtown Denver. There were about 20 folks there in various stages of Rails experience. Some having worked with it from the start and some just starting. Some guys were excited to be working in Rails full time andContinue reading “Derailed: The Denver Rails User Group”

For those asking about the blog’s title; “Now, Do It” has subtle differences from “Do It Now” (Steve Pavlina) and “Just Do It” (Nike). “Now, Do It” is personal for me because I have studied and been active in business and technology for over 15 years. I have four years of undergraduate business and computerContinue reading “About the title”

Family and friends continue to ask what we are up to and we find it difficult to explain. We expect to work more hours than ever before yet also expect to enjoy more time to do what we want. We expect to produce quality software yet also expect to do so more quickly than atContinue reading “Why Write and Why Write Here?”