In love and startups, breakups can be messy affairs. While the majority end with a handshake and parting ways in peace, others end with all your belongings hastily thrown out the front door. I picked up a new client this week who was experiencing the latter. Their technical co-founder, we’ll call him Ralph, had gone […]
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It’s 4am in Billings Montana and I am stepping out the door of my hotel into the dark -10 degree morning. Today I am going down underground, and if I miss the 8am train down, I am SOL. On a good day, it’s 2 and a half hours to the mine, but today is not […]
Read MoreProfisee ZPack reference I have been put in charge of helping Zimt integrate their SAP data access technology with a third party master data management solution called Profisee. If you’re not familiar with MDM, it is essnetially software the manages data across multiple data sources, for example keeping records in Salesforce up to date with […]
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So it took some doing, but I finally have created a working solution from start to finish that creates and edits purchase orders inside of SAP. The biggest issues I found going into it was the amount of data I needed to pull in to populate things like “Purchasing Org” or “Company Code”. There was […]
Read MoreAs mentioned in some previous posts, I have been doing a bunch of work for a company called Zimt. They have a software product that runs on an SAP instance, and provides a JSON based api for apps to communicate with SAP. In this post, I am going to build an application that uses this […]
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While I was in school getting my degrees, I did some side work with a local startup incubator in Bellingham. I had always found that the hardest part of developing software was finding something to develop, so by hanging around a bunch of startup folks, I could always find somebody with a passion willing to […]
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During our schooling, we’ve all at some point looked longingly out the window of our classroom and asked ourselves “Am I ever really going to need to know how to do this?”. I remember an exact day like this during my junior year of college. The class was on mathematical optimizations, and I had to […]
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A Riddle A developer barely sees me A user always sees me If I am done right you never notice me If I am done wrong I am all you notice What am I? Well, you can read the title of the article, so you’ve probably guessed it’s your onboarding system! I have to admit […]
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I’ve now been running our window quoting software for about a year. It was licensed by a small manufacturer of vinyl windows in central Washington, and distributed to their customers as a fast way to get a price on a quote. In honor of the one year anniversary of this launch I thought I would […]
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It has been a long road putting this product together. When we started this application it was an Android only application. This was great for showing the product, but we kept getting the same question as we interviewed customers, “how do I get it on my computer?”. So we followed the customer, and now we […]
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