Preston Lee's Blog

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  • Will You Be My BFF?

    For those of you riding the social media train, let’s connect! Personal Links Twitter http://twitter.com/prestonism Blog http://prestonlee.com LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/prestonvictorlee Facebook http://www.facebook.com/prestonism Professional Links OpenRain Blog http://blog.openrain.com OpenRain Twitter http://twitter.com/openrain For those of you riding the social media train, let’s connect! Personal Twitter Blog LinkedIn Facebook Professional OpenRain Homepage OpenRain Blog OpenRain Twitter

  • Radio Spot: Are you Social? The Social Media/Job Search Connection

    This morning I had the pleasure of doing a guest spot on Career Launch with Jane & Al: a VoiceAmerica Variety show airing live every Monday from 8-9am. Today’s discussion was on the role of social networking tools in the employment process. Lots of capable people are finding themselves particularly hard pressed to find jobs…

  • Guest Spot On "Career Launch"

    On Monday, July 13th at 8am I’ll be doing a guest spot on the “Career Launch with Jane and Al” internet radio show. I’ll be present to discuss the role of social networking and social media tools in the career advancement process: specifically LinkedIn and Twitter. Compass Consulting Team (run by Jane and Al) is…

  • OpenRain's First Commercial Product In Production

    I feel like I’ve come to know you quite well over the last few years. It was a rocky relationship at first, what with you not paying attention to me and hanging out with your friends too much and all. But ever since you started taking better care of yourself and dressing up a bit…

  • Handling Fuzzy Requirements

    I had a great conversation with remi Taylor of OpenRain Software today on how to handle fuzzy requirements when the customer isn’t available. You’ve been there… you get an issue tracking ticket like “Add Foozle Support” only to find no explanation of what this means other than the issue title. The customer/decision maker decided to…

  • Offering Developers Startup Equity, A Dialog

    I have this conversation about once a month, generally by a well-intentioned dreamer new to the software space who doesn’t understand why I can’t accept projects for equity. I may be exaggerating slightly, but it sure feels this way…  🙂 Preston: Hi Bill, nice to meet you. How can we help you develop your online venture?…

  • The Truth About Integrating Rails In The Enterprise

    Ruby on Rails is a great RAD framework. We use it all the time. But one place Rails loses its magic–while not the fault of the framework itself–is with external integrations to legacy systems. First of all, soap4r sucks. Everyone I’ve seen try to pick it up has gotten frustrated and angry at how awkward…

  • Asset Tracking Webapp Written In Ruby On Rails

      Keeping track of company assets is important for insurance, warrantee and general informational purposes for purchased software licenses and hardware. I wanted a dirt-simple webapp written in Ruby on Rails, so I wrote one the other night and put the code on github. It’s a really simple Rails 2.2.2 app … no frills but does…

  • Ben The Snowman Picture

    OpenRain’s heater when out recently, and it got cold. Property management figured out how to hack the unit into a working state again, but only after some badgering. Ben dropped some not-so-subtle hints 🙂  

  • What If Ruby Had Final Variables Like Java Or Erlang?

    After a long confusing Ruby debate today at OpenRain on the merits of functional, Erlang-esque write-once-read-many variables, I’m going to step onto the podium and just say it… Ruby should get “final” or “const” variables in a similar semantic style to Java, except at runtime. Rather than ramble on for 12 paragraphs explaining exactly how this might work,…