There are lots of reasons to want your users to update their phone apps. Anything from APIs changing, bug fixes, or driving users and profits through improved UX can be a good reason to get users to update ASAP. Updating apps is not something people regularly do (even Apple knows most iPhone users don't even sync their phones at all), so here's a technique to... Continue reading »
How to build a Lean product and UX (with examples)
I'm a big fan of the Lean philosophy for building things: businesses, products, user experiences, software, etc. This is one of the reasons I help organize the Lean Coffee meeting in SF (Tuesday mornings, come out and join!) Simple prototypes can be used to test things, rather than building a complete first version to validate an idea (which produces Waste, which Lean is... Continue reading »
Testing is dead -- a Continuous Integration story for business people.
Testing is dead.
Now that I've got you riled up a bit, let me explain what I mean, and why you already love Continuous Integration (CI), even if you don't know exactly what it is yet.
The old way of developing and testing software was to write the code, launch it, and... Continue reading »
Cloudspace's Quinceañera is Here! Not a Girl, But Not Yet a Woman?
Yesterday was Cloudspace's 15th birthday! We closed the shop at 1:30 to celebrate in the only way we know how. With copious amounts of beer and laser tag.
Continue reading »Agile Principle 12: Look at yourself in a mirror
At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.
Inside a project team, we have two types of meetings: daily, and weekly.
Calling the daily meeting a "meeting" might be overstating it. It's a quick opportunity to catch up and make sure that all of the developers are on the same page. Within Cloudspace, many... Continue reading »
Startup Weekend: San Jose
Anyone who has followed Cloudspace's long and illustrious career knows that we love to sponsor a good event. This time we chose Startup Weekend: San Jose, sponsoring a total of 5 tickets. Although we can't go ourselves, which is pretty heart-breaking, we hope those tickets will get some young entrepreneurs with great... Continue reading »
Alchemy Unleashed: Jasmine Becket-Griffith & Friends
Our most recent art show on April 9th, Alchemy Unleashed: Jasmine Becket-Griffith & Friends, was a raging success! With over 170 people in attendance we have never seen the office that packed. I know several people traveled from out of state to attend and we even had people lined up outside before we opened! Congratulations to all the artists for a great night, especially Jasmine. As... Continue reading »