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Discussion about anything and everything on any top that caught the author's fancy.
05/08/2024
Restoring Old Software for Child Learning Safety
by Frank Rietta
Learn why classic software like WordPerfect & 1st Math can boost your child's development! Explore safe retro tech & conquer digital learning challenges.
06/10/2021
Why Rietta Appreciates Diversity
by Kelly Bard
Rietta explains why it values workplace diversity in hiring, citing Harvard, McKinsey, and Deloitte research on how diverse teams innovate and perform better.
01/28/2021
Brad Cox has died
by Frank Rietta
Dr. Brad J. Cox Ph.D., influential computer scientist, co-inventor of the Objective C object oriented programming language, influencer of modern programming based on reusability of software components, has died.
01/09/2021
Leading a Distributed Team with Productive
by Lore Hamilton
As a distributed agency, we have to make sure everyone is working on budgeted client priorities across more applications than we have people. Traditional time tracking tooling doesn't cut it. We've found Productive.io to be the best so far.
06/15/2018
Harvest vs. Productive.io
by Alex Piechowski
Choosing a time tracking and invoicing solution can be tricky. This comparative analysis examines the factors our team factored into our decision to switch to Productive.
10/07/2017
Southeast Ruby Conference Recap
by Alex Piechowski
Rietta's recap of the South East Ruby Conf in Nashville, covering talks on soft skills, PostgreSQL JSON, open source, chatbots, and shipping working code.
06/17/2015
The first real investor meeting post investment
by Frank Rietta
A client recently shared Gordon Daugherty's article on how once investment is brought on, the lead investor is going to have a board seat and things become formal.
11/14/2013
We Won a Hackathon with Scriptive! The Programmers' Perspective.
by Frank Rietta and Brandon Dees