Volano Solutions
April 25, 2013
By Antonio Zugaldia (http://www.flickr.com/photos/azugaldia/7457645618) [GFDL or CC-BY-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons Google Glasses: Eyes Wide Shut Remember when we thought smart phones were the pinnacle of man’s technological prowess? Google may be onto something that makes the iPhone look like your dad’s flip phone. I’ve been reading up on Google Glasses, hotly anticipated on the market […]
April 23, 2013
What We Do Volano Solutions was featured this month in the Midlands Business Journal. Check out the article when you have some time. Custom software can be an abstract topic and the MBJ did a good job of crystalizing what we do here. Collaboration Like any business, communication is the central component for success. Volano […]
April 22, 2013
Let’s catch up on last night’s Mad Men episode, the third from this most recent season. Peggy Olson capitalized on her ill-begotten Heinze Ketchup scoop and stole the business out from under Draper and Co. Megan Draper’s acting career heated up as Don cooled to the recent love scenes written for her character in her […]
April 19, 2013
It’s 3:00 on Friday afternoon, and I am wrapping up my third week here at Volano Solutions. It’s been just long enough that I am starting to feel at home, but not so long that I’ve forgotten why motives or reasoning for joining this lot. The short answer is because I have failed to find […]
April 19, 2013
Though I only officially came on board with Volano Solutions this past Monday, I’ve had the pleasure of spending the last three weeks here in the Volano compound. I couldn’t be happier to be part of such a great team; everyone here is tack sharp, in wit and knowledge, and has made me feel welcome […]
April 15, 2013
Last night’s episode of Mad Men, this season’s second installment, saw Don Draper continuing to lower the moral bar at home and rattle the cages of his associates at work with his client management decision-making. The episode tied nicely into the weekly business lesson from which Volano is drawing parallels; know your business. However, the […]
April 8, 2013
Last night AMC fired off the opening salvo in the sixth season of Mad Men. The episode begins with Don Draper and his second wife Megan returning from an apparently transformational trip to Hawaii. I began thinking, as many viewers do, that at some point Don Draper will have that moment of clarity or some […]
April 4, 2013
This last issue of Esquire had an excellent article on how Mad Men is applicable to our day and age: The man in the gray flannel suit is the direct ancestor of the man behind the MacBook watching him… A huge number of Mad Men fans are haunted by the same question that haunts Don […]
April 2, 2013
Volano Solutions welcomed senior developer Rob Larkin to the company Monday. Rob relocated from sunny Florida to come back to Omaha where he had lived before for a short time, a testament to the new appeal of Omaha and a fortunate turn of events for Volano. Rob and Volano have been talking for months and […]
April 1, 2013
Volano Hires New Senior Developer Volano is thrilled to welcome Senior Developer Erin Hawkins to our team today. Erin brings a great combination of relevant coding skills and the ability to lead projects and work directly with clients on comprehensive, custom software development. We are excited to bring Erin as we continue to grow. Erin […]
March 26, 2013
15 is the new 21 It’s hard to get surprised anymore when you read about a young innovator who catapults to success via technology in the Mark Zuckerberg age. Spotify, Pinterest, Dropbox and Steelwool (yes I included Steelwool) come to mind. Young entrepreneurs helped introduce us to these innovations. This morning I read about British […]
March 19, 2013
Art Vs. Science Working for Volano forces me to use a profoundly malnourished section of my brain (think Montgomery Burns from The Simpsons and what his heart looks like). This is the part of the brain that thinks in mechanical, linear terms where problems have solutions. It connects related items logically and utilizes facts and […]