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Internal RustyBrick Meeting

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JANUARY 17, 2018

A few years back, one of the developers at RustyBrick came to me and asked me to do an internal presentation within the company to tell everyone what is going on at the company.  Often employees are working on projects but don't really know what their coworkers are working on...

LinkedIn Connections Gone Wild

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JANUARY 16, 2018

In the past 8 hours, I have received over 50 connection requests from people on LinkedIn.  On average, I probably get 5 requests from people to connect on LinkedIn per day.  Something happened overnight where I have received 50 new connection requests in the past 8 hours...

Slack Downtime = More Productivity?

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JANUARY 9, 2018

At around 2:15pm EST today, Slack went down.  Slack, for those that do not know, is by far the most widely used internal business communication tool for businesses that I know...

Christmas Morning Emails

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DECEMBER 25, 2017

The screen shot above is showing you the number of emails I received between 11pm EST December 24th and 5:45am EST December 25th.  

Yes, only 27 emails!   It is Christmas and it sure feels like it...

Consistency

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NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Those that know me, know what to expect from me on a daily basis.  I am incredibly consistent to the point that if I am a few minutes out of my routine, people ask me if I am sick or something...

Do We Sell Bricks?

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

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...

Another Employee Goes To Google

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

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...

Building Stuff That Sells Itself

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I was about eight years old when Honda came out with the commercials around the tagline "Honda. The Car That Sells Itself."  Yes, 8...

RFPs Mess With Businesses

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AUGUST 10, 2017

In our line of business, we get our fair share of RFPs (request for proposals) and 99% of the time, we do not respond to them.  In fact, we receive scammy RFPs from time to time also. 

The other day, I was sent an RFP and I began reading through it...

Pizza Days

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JULY 24, 2017

At RustyBrick we try to make excuses on when to buy pizza for the office...

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