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Fun Facts about OST
OST Day of Refection – Celebrating What We Have Accomplished Over the Past Year Does it feel like you are constantly running hard, giving it your all, and when you finally finish a project you jump...
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GR GiveCamp 2014
Wielding a staple gun to frame a house with Habitat for Humanity or assembling sack suppers at Kids’ Food Basket is awesome, but as an application developer I find it especially fun when I can use my...
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Privacy is an Illusion
At a recent event at OST, I had an opportunity to speak to STEM teachers about application development, technology and the opportunities students have in our industry. One of the teachers asked me what...
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Data can help us know what not to do…
So much of analytics and healthcare IT becomes focused on understanding what we should do, that we miss that data and analysis may identify things we should not do. In my recent physical I had a few...
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The Smartphone as the Personal Health Assistant: The Breathing Chapter
It’s a beautiful day in West Michigan and I am taking the time to get some work done around the house and in the garage. I decided to take the opportunity while working to monitor my breathing using...
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How Software Developers Learned from the Food Service Industry
We had a kind of odd Leap Day celebration this year at OST – we ran a one-day-only pop-up restaurant from within our headquarters in Grand Rapids. I know what you’re thinking: “Wait, what?” I’ll say it...
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The Data Doesn’t Lie
Data is funny. We use it to tell us all sorts of things. We call it empirical. We talk about how the data doesn’t lie. We look at numbers, look at trends, and we draw conclusions – not just the data...
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Let’s Talk Ketchup
I was in a conversation yesterday about a forecasting tool we use to manage our sales pipeline in Application Development. I’m frustrated about some of the tool’s limitations, and I was ranting to one...
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