You run a business, and your business runs on time. Whether your need to bill your customers, or knowing which projects use up precious...
How to ship software, the easy way
Do you think you have what it takes to ship software? I’ll let you in on a secret: it’s not easy and takes a lot of effort—but it’s all skills that you can learn. Here’s my checklist for getting software projects done, in a way that they actually ship and actually work well: To ship software, first learn how to design things for [...]
Stack Overflow is down. What now?
The Internet is awesome. Information is right at your fingertips. Always-available help from people all over the world is one of humanity’s dreams come true. I’m not sure if the philosophers of antiquity included copy and pasting of code snippets in this dream, but hey, it’s a fact of daily developer life. Copy and pasting is awesome, [...]
To #tag or not to #tag
The other day, one of our two amazing developers Thomas “Tagging It” Cannon wrote an advice email. As much as I wanted the email to be about men’s fashion (he’s a sharp dresser), alas it was a solid bit of guidance for an IT team to get the most out of Freckle. In his defence, the email was a lot more useful (at least [...]
Recurring Budgets! (also, cat sweaters)
Budgeting time is not the most exciting concept to discuss—unless it’s qualified by the statements “large sums dedicated to” and “for fulfilling dreams.” Unfortunately, we at Freckle can’t manifest a fairy ATM machine with a penchant for life coaching as your next client or ours for that matter. What [...]