{"id":463,"date":"2009-02-13T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/?p=463"},"modified":"2009-02-13T16:35:56","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T00:35:56","slug":"the-corporate-game-coders-use-a-deck-lots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/13\/the-corporate-game-coders-use-a-deck-lots\/","title":{"rendered":"The Corporate Game: Coders Use A Deck Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being on the bleeding edge of technology just isn&#8217;t as profitable as making money. A good example right now is the beer industry. BUD is making tons off of our down economic times. But I bet you if you look at BUD, you might find a non-networked FoxPro application, or something from 10 years ago. You might find that there are copying processes that you would&#8217;ve replaced with rsync ages ago, or user rights managements issues still solved with point and click.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say for sure, because I&#8217;m not there. If the clothing that most people wear in Fortune 500 companies is any indication, their tech is 10 years behind the times.<\/p>\n<p>How do you communicate to them?<\/p>\n<p>Kathy Sierra style and use a deck. Create a power slide presentation for free at <a href=\"http:\/\/documents.google.com\/\">Google Docs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re at a big company, a coder that turns his passion and goals into something others share uses a <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/Presentation?id=dc5j5593_863r3b5ht\">deck<\/a>. By my count, you should spend an hour of your day making a deck to get a point across.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being on the bleeding edge of technology just isn&#8217;t as profitable as making money. A good example right now is the beer industry. BUD is making tons off of our down economic times. But I bet you if you look at BUD, you might find a non-networked FoxPro application, or something from 10 years ago. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-webapps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}