Because every WhatsApp “informational” group eventually devolves into a water cooler chat, my app badge currently shows 1,457 unread messages. Because I rarely open Facebook, its app badge shows 312

Our company is bidding on the re-development of an existing product that has outgrown the technical framework on which it was originally built. The customer has received a handful of offers, and the

In the world of web application development, we sometimes face technical decisions whose trade-offs extend beyond the technical. Those non-technical trade-offs can be subtle, and perhaps difficult

The 2016 European Youth Chess Championship took place in beautiful Prague, capital city of the Czech Republic, about eight kilometers outside the city at the historic Top Hotel. Lance and Andrea

One of the services for which I’ve truly been happy to pay is 1Password for Families, which allows my wife and I to centrally manage information vaults that are shared among ourselves, and among our

As I wrote about a few weeks ago, I have my home network connected to the internet through a VPN router, running the Tomato firmware. Although the setup works great, I did run into two issues which

Between July 11 and July 16, the 2016 U14 Spanish National Chess Championship was held at the beautiful Best Western hotel in Salobreña, Spain.

Lance won this category in 2015 as a U12 player, and so

In reviewing Lances performance at the Spanish national championship this past weekend, the GM trainer from Andalucia strongly encouraged us to buy ChessBase as a tool to keep up with the latest in

Update Readers will note that I've changed the title and URL of this article, and that's because shortly after posting it, representatives of SendGrid reached out, apologizing for the situation

In a recent blog post I explained how I secure my home network with a VPN. In that article, I also explained how I enabled external access to my home network, using the Slink software running on a