Flexible Notifications from Remember the Milk
I’ve been a long-time user of Remember the Milk (RTM) for staying on top of my to-do list. I leave it open pretty much all the time using Prism, and make extensive use of the Android app as well. I use the daily reminder email to keep me on task day-to-day. One feature that I’ve [...]
Lost in the Social Media Wilds
I’m happy today to be heading to the Hotel Mead in Wisconsin Rapids, WI to present at the Leadership Wisconsin (formerly WRLP) Alumni Summit. I’ll be discussing social media, looking at the nuts and bolts and then delving into the deeper issues around social media with a bunch of community leaders from around the state [...]
Fantasy Sports E-Commerce Web Site
Fantasy sports contests are widely played among office mates for small stakes. However, these games are also run nationwide for larger stakes. Our client first ran contests in the early 1990′s using only an automated touch-tone phone system through which contestants could make trades, purchase souvenirs and request reports. With the advent of the world-wide [...]
Profit Sharing System
One of the major challenges for a small company is providing the tools to help their staff to be as efficient as possible. With little or no in-house information technology staff, many small companies think that custom developed software is out of their reach. However, Irish Rose Consulting can provide solutions specifically designed to meet [...]
Dispatch Management System
In the trucking industry, companies are responsible for handling millions of dollars of freight belonging to their customers. Pick-ups and deliveries must be scheduled precisely in the world of just-in-time manufacturing. Dispatchers spend their day on the phone talking with customers to book loads and schedule their handling. They have to quickly determine rates for [...]
DataVUE Data Explorer
Public works departments in medium to large cities are faced, as are all government agencies, with shrinking budgets and growing demands for services. The main duty of these departments, road maintenance, is a very visible need to their customers, the community’s residents. Even a job as physically demanding as road repair can benefit from the [...]
Environmental Database Web Site Project Summary
Our client, a Wisconsin-based non-profit foundation, formed a unique partnership with private industry and government agencies to perform oak savanna restoration on several large plots of land in the upper midwest. A savanna ecosystem consists of a mixture of scattered woods and grasslands. Several types of North American savannas have become rare, leading to the [...]
Air Traffic Awareness Display
Pilots of commercial airliners and some business jets have a tool called TCAS which provides them with a display showing the locations of other aircraft in the sky around them. Many people assume that pilots of small aircraft have a similar display – amazingly, that is not the case. Pilots of these general-aviation aircraft rely [...]