Some things to get off our chest.

"I tend to think of myself as a one-man wolf pack. But when my sister brought Doug home, I knew he was one of my own. And my wolf pack... it grew by one." -- Alan Garner, The Hangover The wolfpack just grew by one... I would love to introduce a gr...

Toledo, Ohio has a wealth of smart and creative people working within it's city. I know because I have been working and talking with a lot of them for several years. We wanted the ability to work together on a more regular basis and rid ourselves ...

We have been working hard and we can finally announce that the Morale API is baked and ready! With the Morale API, you can interact with your account over a RESTful API. The API allows interactions with your accounts, projects, and of course, tick...

I wanted to create some coupons for Morale so that I could pass them out at conferences and use them as business cards for the product. The coupons needed to contain the same site branding for Morale as that is important to me. More importantly, t...

Today was a very sad day for me. And many others, I assume. Steve Jobs was a huge influence on me. He's an influence on how I run my business and how I create things. He helped shape how I live my life. He inspired me. I just wanted to say thank y...

Morale was built on top of open source software. That is, it was built on Linux servers using Ruby and Rails. It should of been free or close to free, right? Here I document my costs for building and maintaining a software as a service application...

You are heads down writing code. Everything is flowing well. Shit. You found a bug. You found some code that needs to be refactored. But you are in a zone. You don't want to fill out a huge form with the ticket details. You just want to get it out...

I have introduced CSLA and explained why I love it in this post. That was the first article explaining the how. In this article, we will add some properties to our class and explain what the "magic" is behind the CSLA code. Review So far we have 2...

If you have been following Morale since the beginning, you will know that I have been working on some version of it for about 4 years and I haven't released it. This is horrible. Part of me thinks that it is because I am scared to release somethin...

I have been thinking a lot about activity streams lately. A lot of issue tracking / software management applications use them. I find some of them useful and I don't even notice others. I get some benefit from them but they usually do not tell me ...

I have introduced CSLA and explained why I love it in this post. That was the first article explaining the how. In this article, we will create your first CSLA class. What you need. CSLA recently released version 4, which cooresponds to the .NET F...

I have been a lot time fan of the .NET business object framework CSLA.NET. I have given many introductory presentations on it so that developers know what it is and they know how to get started. I decided to write a series of blog posts covering t...

The other day, I wanted to play around with MongoDB to see if it is the right technology to use for my new giant rewrite #3. I have seen quite a few demos on it, including a great talk from Dennis Burton and it has greatly peeked my interest. I di...

Install Git The first thing you need to use Git, is Git. Git can be retrieved from http://git-scm.com/. The download links for the different platforms are on the front page there. For additional information on installing Git (honestly, not this ha...

Thanks for stopping by. I have finally set up a place to talk here at Brilliant Fantastic. I have been blogging solely at http://wrightin.gs. I want to keep wrightin.gs as more of a personal blog and blog about technology, software, and business h...