Joe Stangarone

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Name: Joe Stangarone
Date registered: November 29, 2010

Biography

Joe Stangarone is a 30+ year veteran of the IT industry and president of mrc—the software company behind the award winning development platform, m-Power. Joe shares his leadership and technology insights through the Cup of Joe Blog, focusing primarily on ways businesses can save time, money, and increase productivity using technology.

Latest posts

  1. 5 common IT practices that waste your time — May 14, 2013
  2. If you could start over… — May 13, 2013
  3. Weekly recap: 7 traits of effective programmers, most common mobile development trap, and more… — May 10, 2013
  4. 6 strategic development questions that many overlook — May 7, 2013
  5. How to create home screen icons for your mobile web apps — May 6, 2013

Most commented posts

  1. iPad2 giveaway ends on Dec. 15th — 10 comments
  2. 6 “native” features you can use with mobile web apps — 9 comments
  3. Hybrid vs. Native vs. Mobile web comparison chart — 9 comments
  4. Have businesses fallen for Apple’s marketing? — 9 comments
  5. 7 reasons why mobile web apps are better for business than native apps — 9 comments

Author's posts listings

May
14

5 common IT practices that waste your time

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How much time do you waste at work? It might be more than you think. No, I’m not referring to blatant wastes of time like talking on the phone all day, surfing the web, or even sleeping. I’m referring to work-related practices that keep IT professionals busy, yet ultimately unproductive. Here’s the tricky part: They… Continue reading »

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May
13

If you could start over…

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“Why can’t our applications do (fill in the blank)?” How many times have you asked that (or a similar) question? How many times have you wished that your old business applications were more capable, or included modern features? Let me ask you a question: If you could start over, and build your applications for today’s… Continue reading »

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May
10

Weekly recap: 7 traits of effective programmers, most common mobile development trap, and more…

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Every week, I share the most interesting and useful tech articles that I’ve found over the past week. This week’s top articles focus on traits of effective programmers, the most common mobile development trap, and more. I hope you find them useful: The most common mobile development trap Are you considering creating mobile versions of… Continue reading »

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May
07

6 strategic development questions that many overlook

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I’ve noticed a lack of long-term, strategic thinking in the business application development world. Many businesses build applications for current needs, but ignore the future. It usually goes something like this: A manager says, “I need an application that does X, Y, and Z. When can we have it?” The developers rush through the project,… Continue reading »

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May
06

How to create home screen icons for your mobile web apps

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During a recent conference, we spoke with one attendee who bemoaned the fact that mobile web apps don’t offer home screen icons (like native apps do). Our response: Of course they do! You just need to create the icon and put it in the correct location. It’s really no different than creating a native app… Continue reading »

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May
03

Weekly recap: 10 critical ERP upgrade mistakes, evolution of enterprise software, and more…

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Every week, I share the most interesting and useful tech articles that I’ve found over the past week. This week’s top articles focus on critical ERP upgrade mistakes, the evolution of enterprise software, and more. I hope you find them useful: Evolution of enterprise software Enterprise applications are changing. Giant, confusing enterprise apps are being… Continue reading »

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Apr
30

7 major web development trends of the next 5 years

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Driven largely by the rise of mobile computing, web development has evolved dramatically over the last 5 years. Just think: Five short years ago, we developed web applications for use on a PC. Now, we develop applications for multiple devices. While I could list many more ways web development has changed in the last few… Continue reading »

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Apr
29

Workflow application demo

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A couple of months back, we released a powerful new m-Power feature: Event-triggered messaging. In short, it lets your applications deliver email or sms messages on a pre-determined schedule, or based on application events. Now, you can use this feature in all sorts of ways–from running and emailing reports on a scheduled basis to automatically… Continue reading »

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Apr
26

Weekly recap: 6 traits of successful CIOs, how IT departments waste time, and more…

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Every week, I share the most interesting and useful tech articles that I’ve found over the past week. This week’s top articles focus on traits of successful CIOs, how IT departments waste time, and more. I hope you find them useful: PHP is the right tool for the job (for all the wrong reasons) This… Continue reading »

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Apr
23

How to build applications your users will hate

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IT departments are often frustrated by poor application adoption. They spend months building applications for their end users, only to see low adoption rates upon completion. The very users that begged the IT department for the application don’t use it once it’s built. Why? What causes low user adoption? What makes users dislike an application… Continue reading »

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