Daylight Savings Time changes

March 9, 2007 | by Trevor
What is DST? Daylight Savings Time (DST) is an adjustment made to the local standard time, allowing people to make the best use of daylight during the different seasons. The mnemonic device “Spring ahead, Fall back”, refers to how one should adjust a clock to correctly navigate the move to and from DST. New start and end [...]
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Simple, lightweight Java development

February 28, 2007 | by Trevor
Through the short arc in the history of the software development industry, developers have taken on ever larger and more complex problems. Programmed routines became formalized as components; applications were developed to communicate with each other, creating building blocks that allowed software architects to erect ambitious towers of code resembling the Biblical Babel. The result [...]
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What’s with the Einstein quote?

January 23, 2007 | by Trevor
You might have noticed we’ve taken to using a quote from Einstein in our marketing material: Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. ~Albert Einstein Of course, we are happy to simply have an association with one of the great minds in our civilization, but there’s more to it than that. The [...]
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Building web applications: finding the best value

December 12, 2006 | by Trevor
Any successful company spends its money carefully, seeking best value, much like we spend our own money on household purchases. For a company, software can be a significant investment, similar to our personal investment in building the family home. In both cases, there are several approaches to choose from, each providing similar functions in different [...]
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