Tag Archives: Synthesys

The License Beast

An article over at Computer World is indirectly one of the best arguments for Free Software I’ve ever read. I’ve attempted to navigate Microsoft’s various licensing schemes for small businesses before, and its always been a confusing and ardous process. … Continue reading

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Moving to Peoria

I’m moving to Peoria, Illinois! My amazing wife Samantha got a job with the First United Methodist Church, and we decided to move. I’m going to continue working for Synthesys, but I’m looking for new clients in the Peoria area. … Continue reading

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Boss Blogging About Venezuela

I haven’t even gotten around to blogging about Synthesys’s planned trip to Venezuela, but my boss, Bob Rinella, has been posting like crazy! The story goes, Bob visited a school/church in Venezuela a few months ago and has been planning … Continue reading

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OpenIT Progress

I’ve been keeping up a good pace of bug fixing in OpenIT thanks to user bug reports. I’m really getting bitter about using MySQL 4.0, especially after we’ve started using PostgreSQL for a new project at Synthesys. Views? Foreign Key … Continue reading

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New SynthesysSolutions.com Design

On Thursday I helped Tony upload the new Synthesys Solutions home page. We replaced our old custom built PHP site with Drupal. There are still a few kinks to work out – such as not mentioning OpenIT! – but for … Continue reading

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Adventures in ASP.Net

Lately, Aaron and I have been hacking on a Synthesys product that uses an ASP.Net Web Service to act as a sort of a proxy between two remote client applications. It’s been a long and interesting road, especially since until … Continue reading

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