The Price of Everything

Great companies take charge of the entire problem, soup to nuts. 

Our payroll provider takes care of a thousand little details, from making the right deductions to filing reports with the government to direct deposit.  And we’re happy to pay for this - they solve our entire payroll problem.

Customers pay for the simplest, best method to get results.  They look at their total problem, not just the piece we happen to cover.  If you want happy customers, look at the whole problem too. Read more »

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SmartRate was first cobbled together in Microsoft Access and Excel.  When I demonstrated SmartRate was good enough to move forward, I developed in a slightly archaic language - Visual Basic 6. 

By almost any measure, .NET is a superior language to VB6.  Development is faster, cleaner, and the third party tools for .NET are far better.

VB6 has one feature to recommend it.  Its bad reputation among architecture astronauts repels the people we really don’t want.  Many geeks care more about gaining experience in the latest hot technology than shipping good product.  Code that works and can be modified without a PhD is just too boring for some people.  Read more »

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