RoboSource Blog
Guest Blog: Why It’s Important for Women to Engage Male Allies
Traveling a path that leads to gender equality in tech is a passion of RoboSource. We're starting at home, by hosting field trips for women in technology clubs and volunteering as career mentors. But there's so much yet to do. Julie Kratz is an...
RoboSource to Donate $25,000 Worth of Software to NonProfit
RoboSource has always been about helping others: specifically, mentoring and training young software engineers. This year, we're going to take industry-standard downtime, and use it to give back to our community. It's the nature of a custom...
How to Keep Software Projects from Failing
Once upon a time, there was a $5-billion pharmaceutical company called FoxMeyer Drugs. In 1995, the company decided that it was time to move into the technology age, and invested in a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. They carefully chose a company to...
What is Software Testing and Why is it a Big Deal?
The deeper you get into the software process, the more you will likely hear about software testing. It probably sounds to you like a good idea—software should be tested! Except once you realize it takes extra time (and we know time is money), you might start to wonder...
Why Time & Materials and Fixed Bid Don’t Work
When RoboSource founder Jason Beutler and I got married 18 years ago, it seemed like our family backgrounds were very similar. We both came from conservative parents, had two sisters, and had families that placed a huge importance on traveling together. Imagine our...
30 Valentine’s Day Gifts Under $30 for the Nerd in Your Life
Valentine's Day is almost upon us—it's time to find that perfect gift. But what if your significant other isn't into the usual choices? Is your nerd more interested in bouquets of USB cords than bouquets of roses? We're here to help! Here are 30 Valentine's Day gifts...
How I Learned Akka.NET by Building an Online Shopping Cart
Disclaimer: The following blog post is VERY techie. If you're hoping to learn all about Akka.NET and how it works, read on! You WON'T be disappointed. But since our normal readership is not quite this technical, we wanted to give you a heads up. If you start reading...
RoboSource Announces Partnership with Translating Data
You know when something big happens, like you're thinking about buying a new house, but you aren't sure it's going to work out, so you don't want to tell any of your friends quite yet? That's how we've been feeling. But no more! We're ready to announce our...
You Can’t Please Everyone: Lessons from 2017
Kendra: In case you don’t know us, Jason and I own RoboSource (you can read more about our story here). We’ve also been married for 18 years. Being both spouses and business partners brings some unique challenges… but that’s another post for another day. Today, we...
The Failure of Excel
Have you ever wished you could squeeze more valuable information from your company’s Excel files? Have you ever found a mistyped cell at the last minute that would have cost you a bundle if it had been missed? Or lost sleep thinking about how many of those cells have...