Sharon Ideas

I just wanted to put a quick update out here on what is new with Sharon Ideas. As of July 1, 2010 Sharon Ideas is now fully incorporated! This is an important step for us and I’m excited to see where it will lead.

Sharon Ideas Inc. is continuing to grow and [...]

So it’s been a little while since I last wrote a blog post. Sharon Ideas has continued to grow faster than I could hope for and I’ve learned a lot. For me, growing a business is all about learning new things. Whether it be a new testing technique or learning new ways [...]

I wanted to share with you all a really cool app I have been using heavily lately. Dropbox is a really neat program that allows fast and easy file sharing between computers, your phone and computer, between family and friends and in my situation, between co-workers and clients.

Dropbox puts an icon [...]

The “development life cycle” is a way of managing the development and implementation of software, websites, and web applications. It can be implemented in countless ways but some of the most popular methods are System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Prototyping Model, Rapid Application Development Model, Component Assembly Model and my favorite, Agile System Development Life [...]

So with more and more people moving to the clouds, to virtualization, to social networking and social media, to anything and everything online, does the printed paper hold much value anymore?

I’ve been talking to a couple people who have been involved in marketing for 20-30 years, and while they are now also utilizing the online [...]

One of the dilemmas often faced by quality assurance professionals and testers is the setup, maintenance, and dependability of virtual computer environments. I have usedvpc and VMware extensively. While I prefer VMware over vpc, the large footprint of VMware makes it very slow on a machine with a host system of Vista and even [...]

Awhile back I discovered Outright, a free bookkeeping, tax record keeping service that is designed for people involved in self employment and freelance work. I signed up for it and have been quite pleased with the over all style of it. It has a great way to keep track of your income, your yearly profit, [...]

Just want to take a moment to wish you a Merry Christmas from Sharon Ideas! I hope everyone takes some time to enjoy family and friends and take the time to build and renew relationships and friendships. And to those who are traveling, safe travels!

I just got the HP TouchSmart 300 computer–a 20in monitor and computer built into one. Overall I have to stay I am extremely impressed with it. With 452GB of hard drive space and 4GB of RAM, it is a welcome step up from my previous laptops with Windows XP and Vista. While I have had [...]

So first Facebook came out with a new privacy statement, which promoted making all information public. While they did give users a pop up about it when they logged in the first time after the switch, they didn’t make it very clear that they were indexing your Facebook status messages under the Privacy–>Search section, or that [...]