Jason's Notes About Stuff

Salt is killing us! (April 10, 2007)

Health

An important study was released from Statistics Canada today. The report shows that Canadians, on av (more...)

Canada Worse than 3rd World Countries when it comes to Mobile Data Access (April 9, 2007)

Business | Internet

Tom Purves has created a nice graph illustrating what I’ve suspected for a long time – t (more...)

Stability problems with ASP / .NET (April 3, 2007)

Development

People always try to tell me that IIS / ASP / ASP.NET is just as stable as Apache / PHP. The Canada (more...)

Software development is not like building a house (April 2, 2007)

Business | Development | Project Management

A common problem with software development project management is that most people don’t really (more...)

Chicken McNuggets apparently contain lighter fluid (March 23, 2007)

Health

I “banned” McDonald’s food years ago, after living in Atlanta, Georgia and realizi (more...)

Common mistakes made by startups (March 15, 2007)

Business | Marketing

I just read an article that summed up some common mistakes when starting a business that rung true t (more...)

Comparison of three major web development platforms (March 11, 2007)

Business | Development

I’ve created a web development summary chart comparing the major web application development p (more...)

Canadian Banks don’t care about Customer Loyalty (February 18, 2007)

Business

Last week I closed two accounts at Bank of Montreal. The one account was a corporate chequing accoun (more...)

HOWTO: Quickly Estimate Software Development Time in 5 Steps (February 9, 2007)

Development | Time Management | Uncategorized | Project Management

Estimating software development time is hard. There are so many variables, unknowns, “unknown (more...)