Author: Joel Gross

Joel Gross is the CEO of Coalition Technologies.

Cascade Mountain’s American Gin – Bad Taste

About six months ago I went to the liquor store and purchased about a dozen bottles of liquor so that I could make drinks for my friends and I. One of the bottles that I purchased was a product by Cascade Mountain, specifically their American Gin. Plato came over shortly thereafter and he and I proceeded to mix a couple of martini’s using Cascade Mountain’s American Gin as our base ingredient.… read more “Cascade Mountain’s American Gin – Bad Taste”

Gliffy

Some time ago, I came across a wonderful new little web application named Gliffy. Gliffy is a free tool much like Microsoft Visio, but far easier to use and understand. Gliffy enables you to quickly create floor plans, flow charts, organizational flow charts or any other kind of visual diagram aid you might need.

I have used Gliffy to create several pretty diagrams for work and have been able to impress my superiors without having to spend hours slaving over Photoshop or Visio.… read more “Gliffy”

Idea Invention Group

I just read an interesting article in the New Yorker about Intellectual Ventures, a company that brings various groups of smart people together and has them discuss problems and solutions, then patents the ideas.

I would be very interested in having a similar group myself, perhaps one that meets once a week. Would anyone be interested in joining me?… read more “Idea Invention Group”

Semi-Finals Flag Football Loss

For those of you who have been following my blog, you know that my flag football team went undefeated this season and won our first playoff game. Unfortunately, we were defeated in the semi-finals tonight. If we had won we would have gone to the championship game.

We lost because our quarterbacks threw two interceptions. In our flag football league, the offense has a decided advantage and you can’t make any mistakes like that in a playoff game.… read more “Semi-Finals Flag Football Loss”

TKE at UW

While perusing the internets, I ran across the following blogpost on thedirty.com about the TKE fraternity at the University of Washington. Being a UW fraternity alumnus myself, this posting made me laugh a little… Check it out below.

The TKE’s are actually a pretty good group of guys, I don’t know who this Nik guy is or why he decided to bash the TKE’s at UW.… read more “TKE at UW”

Learn SQL Videos

I found the following video series on learning how to use SQL and have watched 9 of the 13 videos. The video series on SQL is inordinately helpful and really has taken me from knowing nothing about databases to being a solid beginner quickly. If you are interested in building your own web applications or doing anything else more in depth with computers, a knowledge of databases is a must.… read more “Learn SQL Videos”