No, unfortunately this post doesn't mean we're hiring right now. But the next time we are, it would serve an interested applicant well to read this post from 37 Signals. Plenty of people know how to code and have years of experience to show for…
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I love when I come upon some independent research that informs me of something I didn't know. Truth be told, I base a lot of my assumptions about LMS cost on the original price offered by my first eLearning employer. (List price at PureSafety back…
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SCORM Untethered is our disconnected player. We've built it as a set of components, and frankly, we're not publicizing it a lot these days. It solves certain problems very well, but it has its limitations as well. (It only supports Windows clients and .NET server…
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The chips I often eat at lunch give me time to read a bit more broadly on learning and education than our typical SCORM minutiae. My hope is this balance helps us innovate and avoid the myopia that can overcome those obsessed with learning standards.…
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My recent vacation seems to have inspired Tim to write a few blog posts. I love that he did, but I think he missed an important point in his post about why we chose not to release the SCORM Engine under an open source license.…
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Well, we've been living very publicly here at Rustici Software lately. While it's not quite The Real World or anything like that, we're becoming progressively more open about our approach and direction. This week, I've been working with our legal folks on our click through…
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We're still toiling away on the public release of the SCORM Cloud. A few folks have asked for application_id's (the token that allows you to interact with the SCORM Cloud,) and we've actually shared them. We're still very much in the alpha stage... although TestTrack…
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A few SCORM Engine customers have asked recently what our plans are for SCORM 2004 4th Edition and how it relates to our release schedule. Must of the SCORM 2004 4th Edition stuff is already complete here in house. We've been working with the early…
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[No, this isn't an accident. I'm intentionally posting about my blender on the work blog.] My wife, Jenn, was making strawberry ice cream today. You see, strawberries are finally in season here in Tennessee, and that means that I seemingly can't get out from under…
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Yes, as we've mentioned recently, several things are different about TestTrack. We transitioned upgraded our server, we applied a skin that makes it look like our new website, and most recently, we switched TestTrack over to our "beta" of the SCORM Cloud. Truth be told,…
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I've spent the last couple weeks researching, and parts of the last several months pondering, whether it would make sense for us to open up our licensing. Obviously this is a fundamentally important decision for a small company like ours. When I get into fundamentally…
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A few weeks ago, we released the new version of our website (which has been well received) and upgraded our servers. TestTrack, our freely available testing application, has been growing constantly and was overloading the server on which it lived. The transition went very well,…
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