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Atalasofties talk about company culture at Atalasoft. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...
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As inspired by the Fox television show, “House M.D.”, episode 6.13: “5 to 9” , we present a day in the life of Atalasoft’s Training & Support Manager: 12:00 AM: Fall asleep. 2:15 AM: Baby wakes up. 2:15 AM – 3:15 AM: Feed baby. 3:15 AM: Fall asleep...
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It’s been a long time since the last Cake of the Week, but I may have truly outdone myself with the least amount of work possible. You all know Lou, our VP of Product Strategy. For his birthday (of which he does not seem to be a fan), I asked him if I...
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Atalasoft employees talk about the first computer they had. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...
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We like science around here. It’s part of the culture, I suppose, that we are curious and like to know about things. (Side note: Eric and I had this great idea for a show where we would record office science experiments. The best was taking the biodegradable...
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It’s safe to say that we had an awesome 2010 . One day in early January, Bill asked me into his office. “Shut the door,” he said. Crap, I thought. And then I noticed a tiny smile on Bill’s face, and I exhaled a giant sigh of relief. Then the cat explained...
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This week, a lot of Atalasoft went to AIIM. During such times, the office is quieter than usual and we, who have been left behind, try to do something to cheer up the atmosphere or to make those at the show jealous. Even better if we can manage...
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A friend of mine on Facebook posted a link to this article today: 22 Secrets HR Won’t Tell You About Getting a Job . I tried really hard to read it without eye rolling. I didn’t succeed. Let me cover this part first: there are a couple of points made...
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Let’s talk about PDF for a moment. PDF is designed to be a flexible file format. It is also designed to be an imageable format without resolution. It can be a collection of vector art, text, and images, but there is no inherent...
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A couple of weeks ago, I started complaining. I complain a lot these days. You see, I’m about 7 months pregnant, and while I’m very pleased that I am mobile and walking and my child is healthy, there are things that do not please me at all. It is very...
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Christina , our head of the Ministry of Culture, had a complaint at lunchtime one day: nearing the end of her second trimester of pregnancy, she was getting more and more frustrated having to walk across the office only to find out that the bathroom was...
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To the fresh-faced candidates right out of college, remember this as you sit through interview after interview with questions about boxes and strings and how many uses you can come up with for a unicorn horn (17 is the current record).* You may be nervous...
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Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...
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It’s true. I first discovered them when I was in 10th grade and trying to figure out how to rotate an object. I was using the following fomulae: x’ = x cos(t) – y sin(t) y’ = x sin(t) + y cos(t) This is very close to an affine transform. ...
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A word about résumés. Yesterday I took an hour to scan and file a massive amount of résumés. Two reasons here: my record retention, and the hiring manager’s ease of access. Generally it’s a relatively straight forward process. Out of scanning and indexing...
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Job-seeking college students and other career fair attendees: lend me your ear. Atalasoft exhibited at the UMass Campus Center Career Blast Fair (say that 3x fast) yesterday, and holy smokes, do you want jobs. Also: some of you are doing it wrong. (Let...
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I’ve been getting a lot of nice and honestly curious questions about my new job title at Atalasoft. At the end of 2010, Bill and I had the job description more or less in place, but we both felt strongly that it wasn’t just “Director of Human Resources.”...
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Just over eight years ago, I left my job as a mechanical systems engineer at Hamilton Sundstrand on the hunch that I could build a successful software company. I learned a lot working in a large aerospace company, and was proud of my work. My last job...
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Around Q3 2010, Bill , Lou and Rutherford attended the Business of Software Conference in Boston. They returned amped up with tons of great ideas. One of those ideas was crafted into an office-wide project we decided to call “Cocoon.” Cocoon worked like...
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I hope none of you ever have to experience what we did this summer: the untimely passing of a colleague. Glenn worked for Atalasoft since its inception, and was known throughout the programming community as Mr. TWAIN. We knew him as a good guy: quiet,...
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In December, a number of small teams at Atalasoft met to undertake projects that would improve Atalasoft in some measurable way – whether it was internal to the company or external. With Elaine and Bill , we put together some ideas for shooting videos...
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*Updated- now with more pictures* Sucker. Just kidding! This is actually a very small piece of a larger project to improve our office, community, and products. We call it Cocoon, and I’ll be talking a lot more about it another time. Until then… Something...
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Short and sweet – Dan Kaminsky created an app for iPhone and Android devices that allows someone who is color blind to see the world and distinguish color. This is important to me, not because I am color blind, but because one of the engineers at Adobe...
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Hi. Hey. This is awkward. It’s like seeing someone at a party you’ve met at least 5 times before and totally spacing on their name. Except, in this version, I haven’t posted a thing to this blog in MONTHS. Well, that’s going to change. In fact, lots of...
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One thing that we do at Atalasoft is a biweekly staff meeting where we cover what’s going on. The responsibility for running the meeting bounces around and it is encouraged to pick a format that works best for you. At the last meeting, I decided...
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