Articles on outgrowing spreadsheets, rescuing stalled applications, and where AI fits in operational software.
Every software development contract I’ve seen comes in one of two forms. Either you pay a fixed price for a product described in advance, or you pay for the developer’s time and get billed as the work goes along. Who carries the risk when the work doesn’t go according to plan? It’s an important question … Read more
When I’m looking into a new product or service online, the pricing page is one of the first places I go. I like a company that lists its prices and lets me compare plans, and I’m glad that has become the norm for software subscriptions: the Pricing link is in the top menu or, failing … Read more
We’ve been building and rescuing Quickbase apps since 2015, and we get a version of this call a few times a year. The person who built and maintained an organization’s Quickbase apps has retired, resigned, been laid off, or just stopped answering email, and now nobody knows how the apps work. If that’s you, here’s … Read more
I own a software company full of programmers who are better than I am. Here’s why I let an AI write my code anyway, and what it got wrong.
