by Marco Santana | Jan 2, 2023 | Our Orlando community
A conversation I had with a friend about the Chicago Bulls of the 1990s really got me thinking about the Orlando tech community. Stick with me here. As a kid growing up in the Chicago area, everybody knew that you don’t mess with Michael Jordan. After three straight...
by Marco Santana | Dec 1, 2022 | Our Orlando community
Orlando technology has long benefited from a 1-2 punch of energy in the late stages of the year. That will happen when two of your most prominent and lucrative industries celebrate themselves. First, the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions, or...
by Marco Santana | Nov 15, 2022 | Cloud Solutions, Digital Transformation, Product Development, Product Management, Research & Development, Small Business, Software Deployment, Software Development Life Cycle
Product development doesn’t happen overnight. It takes a series of sometimes tedious but always crucial steps to take a product from idea generation to an actual, real, living, and breathing thing in the market. Any product you can think about likely went...
by Marco Santana | Sep 21, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence, Our Orlando community, Small Business, Technical Coaching
During my time as a journalist, I had a line I often used when people asked what I do. It was mostly tongue-in-cheek and silly but, at times, I really felt it represented my approach toward writing about technology. Basically, I would say that I’m the dumb guy who...
by Marco Santana | Aug 10, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence, Our Orlando community
I recently jumped on my VR headset, a Meta Quest 2, in a virtual hangout with Orlando Tech. Let’s go ahead and hashtag that one “2022.” It was not my first time in The Metaverse, thanks to a Foo Fighters’ post-Super Bowl performance in February. But it was the first...