Foreword

Why don’t you just fix that?”

It was a late summer night at the office. Many of my friends were on romantic dinners or exploring Colorado on their bikes. I, however, was tucked away in an office drinking warm beer with some other stressed out software developers. It struck me that all these startup friends had never worked together. These three developers are now lifelong friends, but before that night had not really had a chance to work on something together. One of them had a problem with their newly launched application, and I happened to know just the right person to fix the problem who joined us at the office that night. “There should be a way we can work together on projects.”

“Why don’t you just fix that?”

I could have left it ...

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