The saying "A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words" still resonates with me, trite as it may be. I read about the literary origins of the phrase on Wikipedia and was also amused by computer scientist, John McCarthy's...
I’ve always thought of User Interface (UI) Design as some sort of nebulous, abstract idea, encompassing visual design, information architecture, user experience, and above all, clear organization and navigation. In reality, it...
One of our clients has a MySQL server that sees moderate load. The MySQL server process often spikes one of the server's two CPUs. Without a lot of prior experience in tuning MySQL, I set out to figure out what was causing this...
This week in Singlebrook Lab, we continued to explore whether there's a need for a new product that would improve the requirements gathering process for Agile web and mobile development projects. After several conversations...
@mouselink recently caught up with our CEO, Elisa Miller-Out, for his podcast series: - "Join me as I sit on the Ithaca Commons with Elisa Miller-Out, CEO of Singlebrook Technology, to discuss 'B Corporations', the local-first movement,...
I recently went to an American Sustainable Business Council event in the Hamptons where I met a consulting poet: Mariposa Fernandez. She said that she creates poetry for businesses and that she was working on some poetry for...
Singlebrook talks with Liz Forkin Bohannon, Founder of Sseko Designs, about how her inspiring social venture brings economic and educational opportunities to women in Uganda while producing a line of colorful, strappy sandals (available online!)....
Finger Lakes Social Entrepreneurship Institute - DATE: September 13-15, 2012 - LOCATION: Cornell Campus and Greater Ithaca Activities Center (downtown Ithaca) - REGISTRATION extended to: August 31, 2012 - Contact: CTA Director Anke Wessels, 607-255-5027, or...
We spent our last Lab session pitching away. The first half was spent doing a pitch for one of the pivots that came out of our requirements gathering product idea. It's a tool that's designed to help manage the Lean process. (I...
Out of the box, rspec likes to dump all of the specs to stdout: - $ rake spec - ruby -S rspec ./spec/controllers/activity_categories_controller_spec.rb ./spec/controllers/attendee_controller_activities_spec.rb...