Its spring when a young man’s fancy turns to thought of … TechEd! Yes, it’s that time again. Microsoft TechEd 2008 will be at the Orange County Convention Center, North/South Building, Orlando, Florida. This year, TechEd is divided into 2 shows: TechEd 2008 Developers and TechEd 2008 IT Professionals. SAPIEN will be exhibiting at TechEd […]
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SAPIEN is looking for a few good coders
SAPIEN Technologies has recently announced two job openings… check out http://www.sapien.com/jobs.asp if you’d like to help make the next generation of our products and services a reality!
At SAPIEN… It’s All in the Family
The Napa Valley Register recently ran an article about SAPIEN Technologies’ commitment to helping its employees maintain a great work-life balance. Read about it at http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2008/02/10/… Speaking as a SAPIEN employee, of course, I couldn’t agree more. Being able to work during my "peak" hours means I’m really efficient and productive, and the company’s fantastic […]
Okay, if it were free… what would it be?
Everyone at SAPIEN’s getting geared up for Microsoft TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona (this November), and the discussion of what freebies to hand out at the booth came up. Booth goodies have several goals: One, they must be desirable, so that people want them. That way, people will let you scan their badge in exchange […]
Why I Hate the GUI (Part II)
Part I How easy is it to reboot a specified list of Windows servers, without leaving your desk? Hard. Sure, you can get a third-party tool – probably even a free one – that’ll do it, but that’s the problem with Windows management – everything requires a tool of some kind. Why do you think […]
Why I Hate the GUI (Part I)
You know, this whole “why do we need a shell [meaning PowerShell] when we have a perfectly good GUI?” is a sentiment I really have trouble understanding. Literally – I can’t wrap my head around the premise. I guess that’s because I started with computers back in the MS-DOS days, when the command-line was […]
Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays!
That time of year has arrived again where visions of sugar plums dance in our heads. Or maybe that was 25 years ago at some of those parties I used to attend. In any case, the holidays are here and at my advanced age I start getting a bit sentimental and start thinking about all of the …
20 years and counting: Part 3
Phase 3: Our own thingWhile he still lived in Germany, Alex Riedel had been publishing a shareware Windows based editor (what goes around, comes around) called ARIS Edit. SAPIEN struck a deal with Alex to use the source code from his product as the basis for SAPIEN?s first product.
20 years and counting: Part 2
The second part of SAPIEN’s history. This one covers the years where we were known for our crack team of Windows developers.
20 years and counting
There are few finer things in life that sitting at my desk at 6:30 in the morning munching on plain M&M’s and listening to Bob Marley. OK, maybe that is too weird. But there has been an event recently that far outshines my early morning sojourns into Reggae and chocolate: SAPIEN’s 20th anniversary party.
