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Everyone has ideas, and everyone is convinced their ideas are good. But what are ideas? Why do we believe ideas are special? How do ideas fit…
Jim Bruin
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So you’ve had an idea, developed it into a prototype, completed market research then figured out how to manufacture it. Can you afford it? If you…
Jim Bruin
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Business is problem solving. You’ve done this already, first to invent something and then to invent the manufacturing method for it. Once you manufacture it, you…
Jim Bruin
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At this point, you have a prototype and have completed market research. Now you face manufacturing. When manufacturing you have multiple options. The first big decision…
Jim Bruin
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So you’ve had an idea and turned it into a prototype. Can it be sold? Do people want to buy it? Investigating the market is a…
Jim Bruin
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All invention begins with ideas. Sometimes we see something and can imagine a better way of doing it. Sometimes we’re faced with a problem and invent…
Jim Bruin
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A common problem in any software project is failure and handling it properly. The term Failure is ambiguous, so to make things clear failure is when…
Jim Bruin
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Over a century ago, the US government was interested in powered flight. Before powered flight existed, they found the most popular and renown scientist in the…
Jim Bruin
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When faced with a new tech project, the choice of programming language always comes into question. What is the best language and why? All computers run…
Jim Bruin
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Designing is problem solving. You either begin with a problem and find a solution for it or take an existing solution and make it better. While…
Jim Bruin
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The computer images series has covered pixels, lines, polygons, splines, text and anti-alias. Once you’ve made images, it’s time to store them. To do this, you…
Jim Bruin
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The computer images series has covered pixels, lines, polygons, splines and text. When images have hard transitions between colors, it’s called an aliased image. Images with…
Jim Bruin
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