Jonathan Cogley's Blog

First night at Business of Software 2011 in Boston!

thycotic — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 03:23:00 GMT

I have finally made it to this conference after several years of conflicts with other shows. Registered, got my attendee bag - some nice books (too bad I have some of them already). Met some founders already and had some good conversations. I am going to drive my team batty when I get back to DC with all these ideas! http://www.businessofsoftware.org

Secret Server 7.4 released–password management for IT Admins

thycotic — Mon, 02 May 2011 22:30:07 GMT

We have just released Secret Server 7.4 – this is an ASP.NET based web application with a SQL Server backend for storing passwords for IT Admins, DBAs and even developer teams. Get rid of that spreadsheet and start using a robust password vault designed for teams. It can be used to store server passwords, provide web-based password management, or even automatically change network passwords.

The important of transparency in development

thycotic — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:11:00 GMT

David talks about the value of transparency in development.

Easy SQL totals and other Aggregates with rollup and cube

thycotic — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:32:33 GMT

David talks about SQL totals and aggregates using rollup and cube.

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software Ltd, a Washington DC based company who make the web-based password manager Secret Server.

Do websites need to be experienced exactly the same in every web browser?

thycotic — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:31:13 GMT

Jimmy has a new post about browser compatibility on websites and how to think about it from a developer and business perspective.

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software Ltd, a Washington DC based company who make the web-based password manager Secret Server.

Secret Server 7.3 released – store your team’s passwords securely.

thycotic — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:10:02 GMT

The Thycotic team just recently released 7.3 of our enterprise password management system. The main improvement was the UI – we used lots of jQuery to make a Dashboard-like interface that allows you to create tabs, drag widgets, add/remove widgets etc. This was a great face lift for a tool that is already the cornerstone for password management in many IT departments.

Check out a few videos that show off the new stuff.

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software services and product development company based in Washington DC. Secret Server is our flagship enterprise password manager.

Fix your IE7 select lists

thycotic — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:25:49 GMT

Jimmy (on our team) has posted about how to fix your IE7 select lists.

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software services and product development company based in Washington DC. Secret Server is our flagship enterprise password manager.

How to build a Google Finance client app with Windows Phone 7

thycotic — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:54:58 GMT

Ben has a new post. Check it out.

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software services and product development company based in Washington DC. Secret Server is our flagship enterprise password vault.

Only 12 days left in the Code Contest!

thycotic — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:41:41 GMT

We are having a fun coding contest to find the best solution to a fairly trivial coding problem. Come along and show off your skills … you might just win a totally awesome Gyroscope Powerball!

Participate in the Code Contest!

Are you the Chuck Norris of C#? Code Contest – win a Gyroscope Powerball!

thycotic — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:14:54 GMT

We are having a fun coding contest to find the best solution to a fairly trivial coding problem. Come along and show off your skills … you might just win a totally awesome Gyroscope Powerball!

Participate in the Code Contest!

Surgery using leeches?

thycotic — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:39:16 GMT

Jimmy pokes some fun at Kevin and talks about the minimum tooling needed to be productive as a developer.

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software services and product development company based in Washington DC. Secret Server is our flagship enterprise password vault.

Looking for .NET TDD Developers

thycotic — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:01:48 GMT

Are you based in Washington DC and do you love Test Driven Development and Pair Programming? If so, take a look at our posting.

Using the Parallel class to make multithreading easy

thycotic — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:22:30 GMT

Kevin has posted about the Parallel class and how to use it to easily do multiple operations at once without radically changing the structure of your code. Very neat stuff.

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software services and product development company based in Washington DC. Secret Server is our flagship enterprise password vault.

Better Agile Retrospectives

thycotic — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:07:50 GMT

David has posted about the Agile Retrospectives book and his experiences. Incremental change is fundamental to so many agile practices (probably the most important in my opinion) – and retrospectives are the best way to foster discussion and prompt change. The problem is how to get everyone involved in the process.

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software services and product development company based in Washington DC. Secret Server is our flagship enterprise password vault.

Being a Team Lead is like playing Tetris

thycotic — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:17:16 GMT

Tucker has posted about his experiences as Team Lead on our product development team.

Team Leads are hands-on coders on our teams but they are also responsible for working with the ScrumMaster/ProductOwner to co-ordinate on the status and priority of tasks which is where the juggling begins. :)

It takes good technical skills combined with people smarts and solid task management to move the entire team towards the end goal.

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software services and product development company based in Washington DC. Secret Server is our flagship enterprise password vault.