As most of you know, RustyBrick does not outsource our development or design work. We like to control the timelines, deliverables and everything about how we deliver product. Sadly, no matter how many times I write about it here, we still get tons of phone calls asking us to outsource...
The short and simple answer for observant Jews is that you cannot wear an Apple Watch on Shabbat. Besides for not being able to turn off the display from activating on arm turn, it also tracks all your steps, monitors your heart beat and a heck of a lot more...
We are excited to let you know we finally have designed and purchased our very own kippah, Jewish head covering.
We designed them with the deep and rich RustyBrick brown, orange and gold. It is a linen fabric, which is a sturdy, course-weaved, long-lasting...
The day has come! We did it! Never thought we would make it! We are there!
We broke 100,000 Twitter followers @rustybrick on Monday night, October 23, 2017...
On Friday, I was driving back to the office midday and a police officer pulled me over. It was right after I made a right turn, so I knew I was not speeding. I honestly had no clue why he pulled me over...
For some reason I decided not to shave for some time and with the SMX East conference coming up next week, I decided to clean up a bit before I get on stage for several sessions...
Working in this industry isn’t without its perks. Free drinks and snacks, flexible vacation and early adoption to cool new tech startups.
Let me take you back to a simpler time...
One of the perks of my job is being able to get cool new gadgets. Some of those gadgets I use all the time and some of those gadgets I use a few times and they end up collecting dust. Either way, most of the boxes that these gadgets come in, end up on my desk of boxes...
The RustyBrick Sukkah, or as we like to call it, the RustySukkah, is now open for business.
It is pretty small, fits maybe two people at once, but it is operational and kosher. Last year it almost blew away during a storm, which is not all that uncommon for Sukkahs...
This might not be a surprise to some of you but sometimes we get phone calls asking if they can buy bricks from us.
I mentioned this before when I discussed where the RustyBrick name came from...
Forgiveness before Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement, the holiest day of the year in Judaism, is an important thing...
In mid-June, I ordered the latest MacBook Pro, the all USB C version, and honestly, I was very nervous about not having any other port on my MacBook outside of just USB C...
The whole RustBrick team would like to wish you all a happy, healthy and successful Jewish New Years!
Tonight is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, year 5778...
Having a web and mobile development shop in the New York space is pretty competitive, we compete with Google, Facebook and many others in hiring quality developers. And over the years, we have had three RustyBrick developers end up at Google's New York office...
I am sitting in a United Airlines lounge at LAX waiting for my plane to get back to Newark by Friday morning. I travel on average once a month but I am a boring traveler...
With all this hurricane reporting over the past few weeks with Harvey and Irma, many are asking themselves why are these reporters outside in these dangerous conditions...
When we announced that ShulCloud reached its 613th active customer, I wanted to get the word out. Typically when I want to do that, I share the news on social media and sometimes hit up, via email, some reporters I know that cover Jewish news or local news...
I was about eight years old when Honda came out with the commercials around the tagline "Honda. The Car That Sells Itself." Yes, 8...
The folks at the Jewish ECHO Magazine wrote a company profile on us at RustyBrick. We are on a three-page spread starting at page 40, this is accessible over here or I downloaded and cropped out our piece over here...
One of the more common questions we get here in the office from prospects, customers and even some employees is why the name RustyBrick? Where did the name come from? How did we decide to name the company RustyBrick? Why did we decide to use a word "rusty" and a word...