Randall
Randall began his Internet career in 1995, when he developed the first web site for Entergy Corporation, a Fortune 500 energy company headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana. For several years, as an intern and then full-time employee, he amazed his peers and superiors by doing on the web what others believed impossible. He converted legacy applications, beat deadlines, cost estimates and the competition -- winning award after award from peers and stakeholders.
In 1997, Mr. Minter started his first dot-com, a website where college students could provide feedback about courses and professors. The system had an eye-opening effect on the university landscape providing a level of visibility never before possible and sparking a passionate debate that prompted his university to open its own student review books to the campus population.
After graduating, he pursued his love of web applications as a consultant to organizations in a range of sizes from start-ups building scalable web systems to Fortune 500 Companies developing web-based database driven applications. In the Fall of 2006 he began writing the code that powers Qrimp.com and launched the public beta in November of 2007. He wanted to bring the power of web applications to a larger audience, reduce the learning curve, costs and time to market, and build a platform on which he could manage and implement the countless ideas in his head.
Randall believes the Internet is the future of computing. In his opinion, it's still very young and we haven't even begun to understand the huge impact it will make on our lives and our environments.
Randall's work can be epitomized in the following manner:
Randall: "I can do that on the web!"
Skeptic: "No you can't!"
two hours later...
Randall: "Hey! Check this out!"
Randall's Recent Posts
The Big Moose in Sweden. Stoorn.
One thing I'm thankful for this Thanksgiving.
Posted On: 26-Nov-2008 22:39 in
Inventor Garrett Lisi -- nomadic physicist may have solved the riddle of the universe
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Posted On: 03-Nov-2008 07:11 in
The Difference between IaaS and PaaS
What exactly is the difference between IaaS and PaaS? What are some vendors of each and how do you use them?
Posted On: 12-Oct-2008 14:53 in
Adding FireFox 3 Protocol Handlers for webcal and mailto
FireFox 3 has a new protocol handler feature that will let you use web sites to handle mail and calendars. Here's how.
Posted On: 05-Sep-2008 07:11 in
Time Zone Awareness
We recently added Time Zone Awareness to your Qrimp apps, here are a few of the benefits.
Posted On: 26-Aug-2008 16:45 in
Another Reason I Love Qrimp
There are many reasons I love Qrimp, but today I was faced with a problem that would have been much more difficult to solve without it.
Posted On: 21-Aug-2008 16:31 in
What do Cloud Computing, The Singularity and Pregnancy have in common?
What happens at the intersection of technology? What do we know about the world that will help us predict The Singularity? And what does any of that have to do with pregnancy?
Posted On: 19-Jul-2008 11:30 in
New Feature - Deployment Manager
Managing remote applications with the Deployment Manager allows you to make edits offline and then upload changes.
Posted On: 01-Jul-2008 in
Sharing Information with Remote Websites
It's now easier than ever to share any information in your Qrimp applications on remote websites with a simple JavaScript Url.
Posted On: 26-Jun-2008 in
Pack your bags, we're moving to the cloud! (part one)
So it's time to move to the cloud, but where do you start? What do you need to think about? What questions should you ask and what are your options?
Posted On: 26-Jun-2008 in
Pack your bags, we're moving to the cloud! (part two)
How do you choose a PaaS and what are some issues involved in moving an internal custom app into the cloud?
Posted On: 26-Jun-2008 in
Pack your bags, we're moving to the cloud! (part three)
When you're moving to the cloud, testing your apps requires a bit of a different approach, here are some things to think about.
Posted On: 26-Jun-2008 in
Installable Qrimp
A glimpse at the configuration process for Qrimp. Quite painless.
Posted On: 19-Jun-2008 in
Feature - Automatic Sitemaps for Qrimp Apps
Keep your sites plugged into the web with automatic sitemap generation for all your public content.
Posted On: 16-Jun-2008 in
New Feature - Clean URLs
What you've all been waiting for: Clean Urls.
Posted On: 11-Jun-2008 in
Cloud Computing and the Hype Cycle
We are about 6 months into the hype cycle, with a lot left to go. What will the industry be feeling over the coming months and years?
Posted On: 02-Jun-2008 in
New Features - Widgets, Movable Buttons, and Query Security
We released a few new features recently, here's the scoop.
Posted On: 22-May-2008 in
More on the Future of Cloud Computing
Geoffrey Fox asked the Cloud Computing Group if Grid Economies would evolve in the cloud computing space. Here are my thoughts on that.
Posted On: 10-May-2008 in
Mosso CloudFS
Today, Mosso announced a cloud storage service to compliment their cloud computing service. Existing Mosso customers can consolidate cloud providers and save money on bandwidth compared to Amazon S3.
Posted On: 05-May-2008 in
The Open Cloud -- the future of cloud computing
Cloud computing is all the rage, but should we stake our futures in it? Where is it going tomorrow?
Posted On: 02-May-2008 in
Robotic Assimilation - A vision of the future
Robots will be our helpers, navigating our world providing assistance, and integrating information, but how?
Posted On: 30-Apr-2008 in
Start on the web and leapfrog the competition
Small organizations are at a particular technical advantage today because they can start out the right way -- on the web.
Posted On: 24-Apr-2008 in
The difference between Web Hosting and Cloud Computing
What exactly is the difference between hosting and cloud computing? Aren't they the same? No.
Posted On: 24-Apr-2008 in
Three Great New Features - Interfaces, Query Builder, Excel File Import
We released new code with three great new features that make Qrimp even more flexible and easy to use.
Posted On: 20-Apr-2008 in
Nomadic working -- Bring it on!
What was telecommuting, or working from home is now nomadism, or nomadic working and Qrimp is here to support it.
Posted On: 11-Apr-2008 in
Google App Engine vs. Qrimp
Google just announced their App Engine product that allows developers to create web apps to run on the Google Infrastructure, but it is not browser based web development.
Posted On: 08-Apr-2008 in
Presentation for Tulsa DNUG
I'll be giving a presentation at the Tulsa .Net User's Group (DNUG) March 31.
Posted On: 20-Mar-2008 in
Design Mode ON/OFF
Now it's even easier to modify your Qrimp apps with Design Mode
Posted On: 24-Feb-2008 in
Qrimp vs. Microsoft Sharepoint
Qrimp's closest competitive offering from Microsoft is Sharepoint. I'll discuss some of the different features of the products.
Posted On: 21-Jan-2008 12:35 in
Platform on Demand
Qrimp is a platform on demand that allows you to solve problems with software for which there is no existing software solution.
Posted On: 20-Jan-2008 in
Is open source recession proof?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes of ZDNet.com asks if open source is recession proof. Here are my thoughts.
Posted On: 14-Jan-2008 in
Data Portability
Data portability is about more than social networks. It's about progress and productivity.
Posted On: 13-Jan-2008 in
Integrating Qrimp Apps with Facebook
I thought it would be interesting to see if Qrimp could integrate with anything and Facebook is the test. Turns out, Qrimp is the easiest way to build Facebook Apps.
Posted On: 29-Dec-2007 in
Building a Web Programmable Programmable Web
With all the talk of a programmable web, why are we not concentrating on web based programming?
Posted On: 27-Dec-2007 in
Solving the Problems of Open Source
The Open Source movement is one of the greatest in the technology arena, but its problems limit the potential to share functionality and information management with a broader community.
Posted On: 26-Dec-2007 in
Introducing Qrimp Solution Accelerator Modules
Modules are Solution Accelerators that allow you to add functionality to your Qrimp App or share functionality you have developed with others.
Posted On: 24-Dec-2007 in
Comprehensive Database Search and Replace
This bit of SQL will search all the tables in your database for the occurrence of a string and replace it with another string
Posted On: 18-Dec-2007 in
The Long Tail of Application Development
Custom Application Development is still an expensive endeavor. By reducing barriers and cost, more information management needs can be addressed.
Posted On: 18-Dec-2007 in
Performance Enhancements
A description of the performance improvements in today's release
Posted On: 16-Dec-2007 in
Messaging, Error messages, table names and more
We updated the messaging functionality, improved the appearance of error messages and improved table name validation.
Posted On: 14-Dec-2007 in
Add a table builds menus automatically
This new release adds menus for new tables automatically
Posted On: 13-Dec-2007 in
Fix - Single Table Search Error
Fixed a bug which was the result of complicated single table search queries
Posted On: 12-Dec-2007 in
Starting Up and Down and UP and down...
Starting a company isn't always roses, sometimes it's really hard. Sometimes you'll want to give up. Don't.
Posted On: 11-Dec-2007 in
Hosted Solutions vs. Download and Install
One of the key decisions to make as a software company is how to sell your product. Hosted or installed?
Posted On: 10-Dec-2007 in
The Story of Qrimp
A little bit about the history of Qrimp and what it has taken to get us here.
Posted On: 09-Dec-2007 in