I have been involved in a lot software projects in my professional life. And no matter the organization there has always been two constants: pressure from “the business” to increase the scope, and some sort of deadline (tradeshow, quarterly goal, etc.) that “management” won’t bend on. Everyone knows you can’t have your cake and eat it too though and I’ll show you why, with what I humbly, call “Ellis’ Law of Software Projects”.

I have noticed myself wanting to pull up a page that I have on my desktop on my phone a lot lately. After doing this quite a few times I figured there had to be a better way. Enter the QR code bookmarklet.

In the software development world there are two main camps for the process of how software should be built: waterfall and agile (usually a form of Scrum). Agile is an iterative incremental process and waterfall is the classical sequential process. This sequential approach is full of inventory, and inventory = waste. As someone who has made software both ways I will show you why I prefer Scrum.

It seems like I can hardly make it through a week without telling someone about Amazon Prime for the first time. It is quite simply one of the best things on the web. If you have nothing but extra time to run extraneous errands and/or wait weeks for free shipping then don’t read any further. But if you’d like to reclaim more time in your life then read on.

Recently I started my own Google Code project to share some of the reusable code I have developed. There are lots of good general purpose JavaScript libraries such as jQuery or Closure but sometimes there are things that are out of the scope for these types of libraries. One of those things is basic math and statistics operations.