A couple of years ago I was working with one of my small contractor clients looking over his financials from the year 2008 and plugged his numbers into a Apple Numbers 09 spreadsheet application to test out the charting function and thought the chart I created had an interesting point to make about markup in [...]
Responsive Web Design
Once upon a time the big concern in designing and deploying your website was how would it look in all the different web browsers that were out there and how would it look when your users went to print out the page. Times change and the concerns a web designer/producer faces continue to change too. [...]
The Cook Doctrine: Apple is more than Steve Jobs.
From back in 2009 in a list of “We believes…” the unflappable Tim Cook. interim CEO of Apple, demonstrated that Apple is more than Steve Jobs. “We believe that we are on the face of the earth to make great products and thats not changing. We are constantly focusing on innovating. We believe in the simple not [...]
More About QuickEye, The Plan Take Off Tool for “The Rest of Us”
My friends over at QuickEye, the new Plan Take-off tool for the Macintosh (and yes it works on Windows too but we’re all Mac Users here right?), have put together a bunch of videos to better aquaint building and remodeling company owners and/or lead estimators who are invested in the bottom line performance of the [...]
Another Earthquake,…Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple.
Another earthquake, one we all knew was coming but always hoped it would be later rather than sooner hit only minutes ago. Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple. Apple, Inc. released this message from Steve: PRESS RELEASE: Letter from Steve Jobs August 24, 2011-To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community: [...]
QuickEye: A Plan Take Off Tool for “The Rest of Us”
Up until now Mac Users who wanted a take-off tool to work with drawings from plan rooms or work with drawing that came from anywhere for that matter found themselves left out in the cold and they had to devote a machine (virtual or otherwise) to run the Windows OS with one of Windows based [...]
‘How Much Should I Charge?’ & ‘Where Did The Money Go’ get a Facelift
Well it looks like Ellen Rohr’s two great books that I so often recommend , How Much Should I Charge? Pricing Basics For Making Money Doing What You Love and Where Did the Money Go?: Accounting Basics for the Business Owner Who Wants to Get Profitable, have gotten a makeover or facelift. Notice however I [...]
More On Using Canned Data
I’ve also written a little bit about the problem with canned estimating data before (On Using “Canned” Estimating Data) but while working with some contractor clients these past few weeks on both developing their own customized data and importing some data from some of the data books that are out there I picked up on [...]
Productivity: The debate over one-person (lead carpenter concept) vs. two (or more) person crews
I’ve been thinking about the issue of "productivity" and the debate over one-person (lead carpenter concept) vs. two (or more) person crews. When I open up my estimating application or crack open a copy of R.S. Means’ Repair and Remodeling Cost Data I might see a line item that looks like this: Description Crew Daily [...]
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