Author: Shawn Jackson

I’ve spent the last 18 years in the world of Information Technology on both the IT and Development sides of the aisle. I’m currently a Software Engineer for Paylocity. In addition to working at Paylocity, I’m also the Founder of Resgrid, a cloud services company dedicated to providing logistics and management solutions to first responder organizations, volunteer and career fire departments, EMS, ambulance services, search and rescue, public safety, HAZMAT and others.

The Dangers of Copy/Paste Coding

One of my blogging hero’s Jeff Atwood blogged about this a few months ago, but it never really hit home for me until recently. I’m a “Don’t reinvent the wheel” kind of guy, I much rather spend time building direct business value then working on plumbing. So being the blatant rip off artist that I
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EULA and You

An End User License Agreement or Software Agreement is a legal agreement that will accompany your software when it is distributed on the Internet. Recently I’ve been spending a fair amount of time on EULA’s and the topics come up a few times. Although I think their legality is still in question, as I don’t
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The Billion Dollar Idea

I recently sat in a presentation for a cool new idea, it was well thought out and presented fairly well. As a business owner and entrepreneur myself I was interested in the business side of the idea more then the technical side, even though the technical side was very interesting as well. When I hear
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