When we first started writing Tourneytopia, we made a lot of decisions without really thinking about the performance implications. The choices we made were fine for the time, but as we grew, we noticed slowdowns and eliminated them as they cropped up.… more »

Over the last year, I've been doing a lot of work on Pay It Square and Tourneytopia lately. We're building new features, iterating on existing features, and fixing bugs at a fairly rapid pace. As a result, we've been deploying new code quite a bit. Ch… more »

If you follow me on twitter, you may have picked up a few months ago that Develomatic had joined the BizSpark program. It's a great opportunity for us to get help to us grow our business through free software and support from Microsoft. What we didn't… more »

That's right. For the 5th year in a row, Develomatic is running a contest to see who can make the best picks for the Accenture Match Play tournament that starts this Wednesday. As is custom, we're giving away a $25 Best Buy gift card, so if you're intere… more »

At TrackAbout, where I've been working for a few months now, our database has a lot of user defined functions in it. This past week, one of my tasks involved using one of these functions in conjunction with an NHibernate object. There's a couple of wa… more »

This past Monday, we had our 7th GR Tech Lunch, and had some great guests: Ben Gott and Rick DeVos. They both did a great job, and we had our biggest turnout since we started. I didn't count, but we had somewhere between 30 and 40 people. Ben and Rick… more »

Over the past few weeks, I've been dealing with a performance issue on Tourneytopia. The site has been working as expected, but it's been a bit slower than I think is acceptable. So we decided to take a look and see if there's a better way to do things t… more »

For the first time, I'm actually going to step back and enjoy myself during the March Madness tournament this year, and host my own pool. I'm inviting readers of my blog (that's you!) and the people I know on Twitter. And anyone else I can think to invit… more »

As part of our recent transition from Tourney Logic to Develomatic, LLC, we've learned a few things about how to set up businesses. Some of them are worth sharing! To start with, let me state that I'm not a lawyer, so if you're in this situation and wo… more »

Develomatic, LLC is running the 4th annual Accenture Match Play Golf Bracketology Contest, and once again, we are giving away a $25 Best Buy gift card to whoever makes the best picks. We've added a few new features, but most of them are admin-focused,… more »