Apostrophe D

After thinking long and hard about it, we’ve decided to stop allowing signups on Expens’d effective today, and will be completely shutting down the servers on February 1, 2010. All current users of Expens’d will be able to log in and continue to use the application until then, and also export a full csv file of all of their data. We appreciate all of our users and those that have given us feedback on the application since it launched in October of 2008. Expens’d was our first application...Read Full Story

Got a tight budget for next year? Perhaps a fixed price contract is what you are looking for. Yes? Well, that’s fine with us. What? Anyone that has heard my thoughts on fixed-price contracts for software development are going to think I’ve gone mad. I was very against them. However, we are all allowed to change or minds. After all, we let our customers change their minds every two weeks, so why can’t we? So what changed my mind? First, we have moved to an Agile contract. This contract lays...Read Full Story

Running a small business is hard. Add on top of that pursuit of an MBA, coordinating a tech conference, writing articles for Amazon Web Services, being a tech reviewer, going to Scrum and Ruby user groups, holding a monthly Scrum lunch and learn, writing two monthly newsletters, writing blog posts, working with consultants, working on improving our applications, and most importantly being a husband and father, a guy can get pretty tired. Work/life balance? What is that? What does that mean...Read Full Story

In today’s update of expens’d, we’ve added expense approval for paid accounts, and updated the UI to make managing your account a bit easier. <h2>Setting up Expense Approval</h2> To set up expense approval log in, and click on the “Account” tab to the right of the expens’d logo. Once there, select the “Edit My Account” tab, check “Use expense approval,” and hit save. You’re now ready to go. <h2>Approving and Rejecting Expenses</h2> To approve or reject expenses log in, and click the “Expenses” tab to the...Read Full Story

In today’s update of expens’d, we’ve added expense approval for paid accounts, and updated the UI to make managing your account a bit easier. <h2>Setting up Expense Approval</h2> To set up expense approval log in, and click on the “Account” tab to the right of the expens’d logo. Once there, select the “Edit My Account” tab, check “Use expense approval,” and hit save. You’re now ready to go. <h2>Approving and Rejecting Expenses</h2> To approve or reject expenses log in, and click the “Expenses” tab to the...Read Full Story