Posted July 11, 2011, 9:23 AM by Jeff Mackey in Business, SIX15. Comments are closed.
Recently I was attending a 4-day training class–the details of the class and why I was there aren’t important (trust me). But while I was there I was out-of-pocket to actually be productive during the business day. I was sitting in front of a computer the whole time, but it wasn’t mine and it had limited Internet access.
As luck would have it, I get an urgent email and voice mail from a client needing email support for their SIX15-hosted account. I know this because my iPhone is screaming at me to be picked up and acknowledged.
I could’ve excused myself from the class to handle the issue, but oh… that’s right–I didn’t have my laptop. So while the instructor was droning on about something, I realize that I could possibly handle this support request using my iPhone. Continue reading →
Posted May 5, 2011, 9:08 AM by Jeff Mackey in SIX15. Comments are closed.
When we first meet with new prospective clients, often the first or second question from them is, “What is SIX15?” or “What does SIX15 mean?”
What is “SIX15″?
Coming up with a company name and brand is surprisingly difficult. You can easily be paralyzed by over-analysis of the tiniest detail. Thinking of a unique yet catchy name to represent a technology-based company led me to think about numbers, dates, and the like.
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Posted April 23, 2010, 3:05 PM by Jeff Mackey in SIX15. 1 Comment.
This post is inspired by several other people in the web development industry. One example would be from Matt Brown. His well written post about the tools, applications, and websites he uses to run his company prompted me to get off the couch and add my list to the… list. So, here it goes!
MacBook Pro 15″ w/24″ LED Display
MacBook Pro
I made the switch from the Microsoft Windows world to Mac in 2005, with the purchase of a 17″ PowerBook running Mac OS X Tiger. When Apple came out with the 17″ I was sold, even though I was lusting to make the switch ever since the Panther days. After running smooth and without any issues I upgraded to this MacBook Pro 15″ in the early months of 2009. The PowerBook was starting to show it’s age and I started noticing it running slow compared to newer machines. Having the 24″ LED display at home is amazing. It’s essentially a small TV screen. Pictures don’t do it justice.
Yes, my MacBook Pro contains my entire business: templates, forms, documents, applications, password repositories, and local development environment. I am running a local copy of Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Ruby on Rails.
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