We open-source developers have a well-deserved reputation for being passionate about software. It’s not just a job for us — solving problems and streamlining the solutions to be elegant and intuitive is as much of a calling for us as curing a disease might be for a doctor, or composing a symphony for a musician. [...]

    Throughout South Asia, everyone from small children to big-shot businesspeople look forward all year to Diwali, a holiday that lasts for five days of fireworks, lanterns and celebrations with family and friends. Diwali is also important to the business community, since it marks the beginning of India’s fiscal year. Like the winter holiday [...]

If you’ve been in business for any length of time, you’re probably in the habit of thinking of tech upgrades as expensive, labor-intensive and likely to get in theway of everything else your business is working on. So it will be a relief to learn that you can get on board with one of the [...]

    Good news: Thanks to mobile technology and other recent innovations, insurance customers can find instant customer service and real-time policy information and updates at the touch of a button. Bad news: This technology can be expensive to develop, and the cost can create an “app gap” — making it harder for smaller, locally-based [...]

You know that pre-packaged software applications can have their frustrations. They come with features you don’t need (like that little talking paper clip guy), and don’t have all of the features you do need. You can’t reach tech support, or when you do, you get an iffy connection with someone who doesn’t understand or care [...]

Lots of people dream of moving from mainland USA to Hawaii, the ideal island getaway. So why did my family, the founders of OpenGambit, decide to wave goodbye to the beach and hello to the decidedly less tropical climate of North Carolina in the winter? It all came down to the incredible opportunities that NCʼs [...]

Having trouble meeting project deadlines or staying on top of multiple tasks at work? If youʼre like a lot of people, you might be doing too many things. No, really. It sounds a little bit backward to say that youʼre not getting enough done because youʼre doing too much, but look at it this way [...]

It started with a problem. Actually, there were two problems. My client, a major insurance company, was pretty sure that they had a problem with their IT infrastructure — but they didnʼt know what the problem was. I had the problem of having just gotten off a boat to Hawaii, where they were based, to [...]