Back when we started BrightMix, Dusty and myself set out to with the goal of one day becoming a product company. That is, a company that builds and maintains its own software products. The biggest challenge with this approach is products don’t start churning over cash on day one; you have to build them, enhance [...]
It’s that time again that never was before:
BrightMix’s Friday the 13th “Amazing” Party Party at 5pm
Join us after work for cupcakes, a Valentine’s Day pre-party, and multiple birthday celebrations (Erin #1, Dusty, Sarah Palin, Chuck Yeager, Peter Tork, Jerry Springer, Peter Gabriel, Henry Rollins, AND Mena Suvari). Or, you could choose to celebrate the 28th [...]
Our very own Dusty has been selected as one of the Midlands Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 for 2008. This award goes to entrepreneurs and young professionals in the Omaha area, who are making a difference in their businesses and within the community. As part of the award, there was a bio and photo in [...]
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. It’s full of good food, good naps, and hopefully good company… with out the stress of gift-giving. It’s also a great time to be thankful for all of the good things in life – especially the web. This year we would like to share our favorites [...]
The other night I gave a talk to the newly-formed Omaha Ruby on Rails User Group, about our experiences with Amazon Web Services, specifically our experience with running Rails applications on the EC2 platform.
We currently host both of our production web apps with Amazon EC2: Tripleseat and BetterOmaha.com, and really have high hopes and much [...]
Update! RenderPartial to String has become much easier in ASP.NET MVC, see the new post here!
We usually don’t post much about hardcore programming-related things here, but this is an exception to the rule.
We’re primarily a Ruby on Rails shop, but we still do ASP.NET development fairly regularly. Our overall interest in ASP.NET was waning [...]
Yet again, BrightMix has somehow found its way into the news. We were interviewed by the Midlands Business Journal about our company, how we started, etc. We’re real pleased with the article and how it turned out!
Unfortunately the Midlands Business Journal doesn’t have an online presence for their articles or we’d link to it. If [...]
It’s easy to make a PowerPoint presentation.. but way more difficult to make a great one. What classifies as a great Slideshow deck? I’d like to say most people get it, but many don’t. Here’s some advise from the pros:
Jeff Atwood says keeping it simple is the paramount to keeping your audience interested. No creating [...]
We’re always excited when we get a little press coverage, so we were quite stoked to see that Tripleseat was featured in this month’s issue of Restaurant Business Magazine. The article was titled The Online Office, and spoke about different ways restaurants are using the internet, and web-based software, to help them save money and [...]
It’s no secret that we at BrightMix love holidays. Unfortunately, we’ve been so busy with work lately that we’ve let the last few fall through the cracks (sorry about that Columbus).
The good news is we’re turning over a new leaf, starting with Halloween! We’ll be hosting a “Halloween Happy Hour”, this Friday from [...]
