The Carolina Country Music Festival attracts thousands of visitors and some of the genre’s biggest stars to Myrtle Beach each year. This year TJ Lundeen, Archetype SC’s marketing writer, will be among those taking in the three-day festival, thanks to the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce. “I’m thrilled to be able to attend CCMF […]
Archetype SC and The Quotient Group have formed a strategic partnership to aid in marketing and selling of Archetype SC’s A2 Analytics product. The companies will collaborate to bring A2 Analytics to new clients across the United States, with The Quotient Group acting as a reseller of Archetype SC’s technology. A2 Analytics is a new […]
Kendo UI is a framework built on the jQuery library designed to give a rich and robust feel to modern web sites and applications. One of the problems with jQuery UI over the years I experienced was the lack of cohesive look for the UI elements in my projects. Items didn’t have common classes and […]
At the risk of spoiling the classic Charlton Heston film Soylent Green, and the punchline for my article this month, I offer this observation: advanced analytics, machine learning, and big data offer amazing insights but making use of those insights requires people. A skeptic may offer the observation that this conclusion is self-serving and biased, […]
Zero Overview ‘Zero’ is a working style which suggests that keeping a clean, clutter-free, working space helps to focus the mind and increase productivity. This methodology lends itself to both the physical and digital working environment. If you’re mother is anything like mine, you’ve heard the expression, “A clear desk equals a clear mind.” That […]
If you are wondering what Bimodal is, it’s a term used recently by Gartner to describe two different and complimentary facets of IT organizations. Mode 1 is traditional IT, where systems must be reliable, predictable and safe. Mode 2 is non-sequential, emphasizing innovation, agility and speed. IT organizations need to have both modes of operation […]
August 28th and 29th, I had my first experience at the headquarters of Charleston, SC based Sparc. Upon my arrival at the Sparc building there were numerous local food trucks with great eats fueling the coding superheroes. A super hero is an apt name, given this year’s theme of Superheroes. As I walked into the building […]
If you have children or grandchildren like me, you’ve probably heard these questions on multiple children’s TV shows where the characters set off to solve some incredible mystery. They ask these questions to figure it out. One of the shows, I think The Electric Company, has a very cute song that repeats these questions over […]
Archetype SC’s Patrick Nord loves baseball—talking about it, watching it, analyzing it, and even playing it. He learned years ago, however, that he just isn’t very athletically gifted. Cognizant of this, the past 20 years he has primarily exercised his love through a study of the numbers of baseball, but the closer he could get […]
I recently spent time thinking about a software development project I’m managing that had me a bit puzzled. This is first time in my long experience in project management where there is absolutely no pushback from anyone in the business regarding the project. No one is questioning the reasons to do it, the scope, or the approach. The […]
