Inside OpenRain

Celebrating Ben

A few months ago, Ben Smith celebrated his one year anniversary at OpenRain. We knew we wanted to...

More cowbell

Last Friday, our internal Haiku generator made a few public appearances on Twitter: I made a Haiku...

Bug triage

Preston: It's becoming clear that anyone on the significant periods needs to have their own isolated office space
Saul: How about a soundproof booth? I was thinking it could also double as one of those things where people go in and try to grab all the money flying around in the air
Marc: Instead of money, we could print out Redmine/Trac tickets on sticky notes. Those are the bugs they need (or don't need) to fix.
Preston: That's so agile!

The bathroom keychain has evolved over the years. The first...

Interruptions are hazardous

Saul: cozi.com [a CRM for managing families]
Erica: Saul, cozi looks cool. Right now we [erica + husband] use a mix of Google Calendar & TaData lists
Saul: I need to build a site like this before my kids get too much older.
Marc: Um.. I use this technique called "TALKING". It's pretty revolutionary. I'll have to describe the technique in detail sometime.
Saul: We're sitting right next to each other, and you're not talking to me now...
Marc: ....
Marc: I didn't want to interrupt Ben

Spot the RSS feed. I’m tempted to wire one up to...