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In mid-June, I ordered the latest MacBook Pro, the all USB C version, and honestly, I was very nervous about not having any other port on my MacBook outside of just USB C...

The whole RustBrick team would like to wish you all a happy, healthy and successful Jewish New Years!  

Tonight is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, year 5778...

Having a web and mobile development shop in the New York space is pretty competitive, we compete with Google, Facebook and many others in hiring quality developers.  And over the years, we have had three RustyBrick developers end up at Google's New York office...

I am sitting in a United Airlines lounge at LAX waiting for my plane to get back to Newark by Friday morning.  I travel on average once a month but I am a boring traveler...

With all this hurricane reporting over the past few weeks with Harvey and Irma, many are asking themselves why are these reporters outside in these dangerous conditions...

When we announced that ShulCloud reached its 613th active customer, I wanted to get the word out.   Typically when I want to do that, I share the news on social media and sometimes hit up, via email, some reporters I know that cover Jewish news or local news...

I was about eight years old when Honda came out with the commercials around the tagline "Honda. The Car That Sells Itself."  Yes, 8...

The folks at the Jewish ECHO Magazine wrote a company profile on us at RustyBrick.   We are on a three-page spread starting at page 40, this is accessible over here or I downloaded and cropped out our piece over here...

One of the more common questions we get here in the office from prospects, customers and even some employees is why the name RustyBrick?  Where did the name come from?  How did we decide to name the company RustyBrick?  Why did we decide to use a word "rusty" and a word...

There are a few pet peeves I have, like people misspelling RustyBrick as Rustybrick or even worse, Rusty brick.  But one of my big ones in the office is people taking a soda can from our soda fridge and not replacing it with a warm one that is sitting out of the fridge...

At our office in West Nyack, New York, 70.5% of the sun was obscured by the moon today at around 2:44pm EST.  

So like any other office building that was able to see a partial or total eclipse today, most people went outside to look at it with special glasses...

Last night was the RustyBrick annual baseball game, which we do at the local baseball stadium.   The stadium is named Palisades Credit Union Park and it is the home of the Rockland Boulders, an American independent professional baseball team...

We just had our first real fire in our office.  There was a smell of something burning but we couldn't initially figure out where it was coming from.

So we turned off the air conditioning but that didn't solve the issue.  The smell kept on getting worse...

In our line of business, we get our fair share of RFPs (request for proposals) and 99% of the time, we do not respond to them.  In fact, we receive scammy RFPs from time to time also. 

The other day, I was sent an RFP and I began reading through it...

At the end of last year we, by "we", I mean "me", decided to jazz up our conference room by adding some Philips Hue lights to our ceiling...

With all the pizza we eat here amongst our growing company, we make a lot of trash.  We don't print much paper, we literally design software that makes companies paperless and we do practice what we preach.  So our only real trash is food items, for the most part...

Like any business, we get our fair share of unsolicited phone calls.  The vast majority of those calls are from companies looking for us to outsource our development and design work to them. I guess these companies did not read our policy of not outsourcing...

At RustyBrick we try to make excuses on when to buy pizza for the office...

This morning I received a Google Alert for our company name that ultimately lead to a press release by Clutch, a B2B rating company based in Washington, DC.  The press release is titled Clutch Announces Top New York City Agencies & Developers of 2017...

We are often receiving job applications through our web site on our jobs section.   In fact, we are currently actively seeking to hire a customer support representative for ShulCloud, one of our popular products...