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  • Product Maintenance vs. New Development on Web Sites, Mobile Apps and Other Digital Products

    Maintenance of a digital business product (e.g. a Web site, mobile app, or software) refers to the work that includes modifications made after delivery to production to fix bugs, address compliance/security issues, or improve scalability/performance These modifications can be to the product’s software code, configuration, documentation, hardware, or surrounding network. Maintenance is often contrasted with…

  • How to Avoid Duplicate Search Results when using Apple Mail.app with Gmail

    How to Avoid Duplicate Search Results when using Apple Mail.app with Gmail

    I use Gmail’s IMAP feature with my Apple Mac OS’s built in Mail.app program. Mail.app keeps local copies (on all my personal Macs) of all my email messages that I’ve kept (since 1994). It enables me to: Effectively work offline with all my emails (searching, reading and composing), when my computer is not online. That’s…

  • Software Products: Own vs. Rent & Create vs. Get (Incorrectly Called Build vs. Buy)

    Understanding the issue Technology executives are often asked about their preferences on build vs. buy. This question would be better articulated as two separate questions: 1. own vs. rent and/or 2. create vs. get. Why? The usual problems a company is trying to solve when they ask this are: How can we have the products, features and/or functionality we…

  • I now use WordPress publishing software for this site (Product Review)

    Managing blogs and news content with WordPress is a Zen-like experience. The inner-beauty of a product is felt when it becomes almost unnoticed, allowing the site authors and editors to focus on publishing content and providing useful interactive functionality to their readers and customers. I say this as someone who has been immersed in web…

  • List of Open Source or Free Software for Home and Business Use

    Here is a list of some open source or free desktop software that you can use for personal use at home or at your business. Using open source software can save you thousands of dollars that you’d spend buying proprietary software. I’ve chosen software here that is comparable in ease of use, maintainability and upgrades…

  • Google Web Toolkit: Develop and Test in Java, Deploy as AJAX

    I’m building a pull-down-menu navigation for the rajiv.com site using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and I’m impressed by this Google product. It allows you to create user interface (UI) widgets and dynamic functionality for your web app using the Java programming language. You develop and debug your app in the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment,…

  • Java Progammer? Use BeanShell

    BeanShell is a fully Java compatible scripting language, capable of interpreting ordinary Java source files. You can also use it for working with Java interactively like an interpreted Unix Shell or Perl. You can try out Java’s object features, APIs, GUI widgets and other libraries hands on. BeanShell is free and also ships bundled with…