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“How is the economy affecting your company?”

There's been a lot of talk lately about the economy. It seems that the most popular question people have asked me lately is "how is the economy affecting your company?". I don't have an insightful answer for them. Things are still plugging along. We have…

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“Can you recommend an LMS for me?”

Ah, a relatively common question for us... People come to us asking for recommendations on content and LMS's with some regularity. I theorize that it's for one of two reasons... They think we're the governing body for SCORM. They know we aren't the governing body,…

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Joel on Servanthood

Joel Spolsky is a bit of an icon in the software development world. His blog and conferences are wildly popular, and, for the most part, Mike and I buy into a lot of what he has to say. In a recent article published in Inc.…

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“Candor” Conveys Competence

I exchanged emails with one of our long-standing clients yesterday. I worked with this individual more than two years ago in integrating the SCORM Engine with their LMS, and was aware that he was a solid developer. In this most recent exchange, I noticed that…

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Our First Screencast

With the release of v2008.1 of the SCORM Engine, we've been making a push to improve our documentation and give our clients more resources to help themselves. Part of that push will involve screencasts demonstrating some common tasks. I published our first one this afternoon.…

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Music City Future 50 x3

For the third year in a row, we've managed to secure a spot on the Nashville Chamber of Commerce's list of the fastest growing companies in town, the Music City Future 50. It's hard to believe we've been able to maintain such consistent growth over…

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New Digs

It was getting a little cramped around these parts so we decided to bite the bullet and get some more space. We really value having good space. To us, good space is a place I want to spend time. Good space gives developers the privacy…

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SCORM Engine v2008.1 Available

It has been about a year and a half since we last published an update to the SCORM Engine. We're proud to announce that version 2008.1 is now available to our clients. 2008.1 contains a number of improvements, most of which are under the hood.…

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SCORM Engine in Saba

Earlier this year, Rustici Software and Saba embarked on a joint project to integrate the SCORM Engine with the Saba Learning Suite. This project showed the US Army that it is be possible to integrate our SCORM Untethered offline player into the Army's ALMS (which…

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Joe

Meet Joe. With 150+ customers all over the world using five different products, it just isn't very efficient to have nine different people all juggling support requests. Sometimes two people wind up answering the same question, sometimes a request falls through the cracks and sometimes…

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Steppin’ Up

We've always said that our people are our most important asset...and as a software company, they're really our only asset. It only makes sense to keep employees comfortable, happy and productive. This Spring we decided that since we needed a few new computers anyway, we…

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Foray into SSP

There are a few specifications on the periphery of SCORM that add value above and beyond what SCORM has to offer. Two of them, both from IMS, Sharable State Persistence (IMS SSP) and Question and Test Interoperability (IMS QTI) seem to be gaining some traction.…

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