Volano Solutions
March 23, 2012
With Memorial Day quickly approaching the Volano boys wanted to start sculpting out their pool side pecs. With the help of hundredpushups.com we have begun a six week workout regiment that will, without question, result in a team of well toned and muscular employees. We have two basic rules during our workout: No shirts, and […]
March 23, 2012
When working at Volano we expect things happen ‘because’ of you…not ‘to’ you. We aim to cultivate the spirit of empowerment among everyone. Own something, make it yours.
March 23, 2012
In our business, hiding on the sideline is not where safety is found. If you’re not helping to fix the anxiety, you risk becoming be the target of the anxiety.
March 21, 2012
I want our employees to want to come to work. I believe you should go to work to do something you like to do. For me, coding is my hobby, is my job, is my pastime. Of course not everyone is built this way, but if you’re going to work not liking what you do […]
March 14, 2012
My name is Derek and I have been looking forward to the opportunity to come and work with the Volano team. Although it has been just a few very short weeks since I started, I already know I am in for a challenging but rewarding journey here at Volano. It is great to be working […]
March 1, 2012
Volano is a pragmatic development group. We are a Microsoft shop, but we are not religious about software or hardware choices. Wise technologists know that different groups have different needs at different times and have different preferences. That being said, I recently had a client ask about the efficacy of using Microsoft Access to run […]
December 2, 2011
One of the requirements for working at Volano has always been the ability to produce a gallant moustache for the month of November. We would once again like to share the fruits of our labor with the world. Presenting 2011’s Movember Participants
November 15, 2011
I realized last night that even though Volano is a little over four years old, we have a bit of tradition. I think tradition comes from taking a routine and making it significant. I worked for a company once that had beers on Fridays. The department responsible for picking up the beer order was on […]
May 16, 2011
Volano would like to welcome it’s newest and most valuable employee to the Volano Team. Brandon just recently started with the company, but has already shown signs of super-human intellect and mental prowess. It won’t be long now until he’s signing paychecks and weeding out the rest of the slackers ( your days are numbered […]
December 10, 2010
The Principles of Release Management As with most processes in application development, release management is a subjective discipline. There are many effective ways to promote new revisions of code into the production environment. The goal is to create a process that is defined, repeatable, and does not adversely affect the production environment when new code […]
November 22, 2010
The Tenets of Source Control Source control has been around for a long time. There’s nothing earth-shattering or ground-breaking to say about it here. So, I’m going to borrow from Eric Sink creator of SourceGear, one of the tools we’ve used at Volano: There are many source control tools, and they are all different. However, […]
November 15, 2010
Back on August 15th, Volano turned 3 years old! That was the first day that I sub-contracted at Jelecos. Rod and I had been talking about various ideas to start off on our own with for quite a while, but a consulting company was never really one of them. A few stars (clients) aligned and […]