Should You Start a Business? Heck, Maybe, Yeah Sure

Software and web people approach a lot of things in life as though it were a unit test in one of their applications: with a pass or fail. After almost six years of running a business, though, the only absolute that I’ve found is, well…

We Are Mammoth: A New Site, Some New Faces and a New Mission

Teach abstraction through concreteness

It’s a natural tendency for programmers to teach in abstraction.

Every kind of programming concept — from a primitive type to the most enterprise-level architecture — is an abstraction. It’s only until we implement something that the…

Why Legacy Code Is Good For Your Business Culture

Six years. That’s how old our little software company is this month.

Like most any company that’s no longer in startup mode, but has matriculated to a business that has lots-of-work-to-do and plenty-of-mouths-to-feed…

Providing Good Customer Service to Your Team

One of the things we tell new team members is that there’s a huge amount of communication here.

An expectation that everyone, regardless of job title, needs to be responsive, empathetic, and express a positive attitude to…