Archive for category Development
Architecting gTrax
Posted by chris in Development on March 16th, 2010
Last week we released gTrax as a partner in its Google Marketplace launch. We have big plans for the application, so we wanted to make sure we had an extremely robust architecture underneath.
gTrax app launching in the Google App Marketplace!
Posted by Chris Lowe in Business, Development on March 9th, 2010
gTrax is a Software as a Service Time Tracking System developed for Google Apps. Launching today in the Google Apps Marketplace, gTrax provides simple and easy to use Time Tracking with light Project and Resource management. Also included with gTrax is Reporting, where managers can generate reports to view how much time has been logged [...]
The Olympics of Programming 2010
Posted by Thurloat in Development on February 16th, 2010
The office is a-buzz with activity! There was a similar scramble around the Norex office during the course of the Beijing Olympics when one of the developers became frustrated that there was no easy place for him to check the medal counts. At an Olympic pace, this developer created an OS X Dashboard widget that [...]
Chunks: When it’s good to break Model-View-Controller
Posted by wolfe in Development on February 5th, 2010
The Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern keeps code modular by separating the business logic from the interface and data layers; but what if there is information that has no business logic? Then the MVC pattern forces the programmer to write code for all three layers to manage that information even though not all layers need to [...]
