85 posts from 2007
Even though it may not seem like it, I’ve been working feverishly on iRooster here in Chimp Software Headquarters (aka the Starbucks down the street, my couch, and Helen’s couch) ever since I released v2.4 back in January. The Sad story of 2.4.3 ...
Ryan Carson on TechCrunch wrote a great run-through on monetizing your web application yesterday. It’s chock full of useful, high level information on topics relating to figuring out who your target audience will be, determining how you make money...
I just read something on MSNBC that reminded me of Penny Arcade’s John Gabriel’s Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. Essentially, a 400 pound woman didn’t realize she was pregnant until two days before she gave birth to a perfectly healthy child. You...
Hillel Cooperman (who is one of my heroes, by the way) writes what I think is the best-and most sobering-blog post I’ve read in a very long time. Bear in mind that when I say “sobering,” I don’t mean it in a ‘screw your startup dreams and go becom...
Or so I hear. I’ve never actually taken the time to watch one, as I’m absolutely opposed to his employer’s name on grounds of taste. Also, I’m happy to hear that Maryam has banned Robert from discussing Twitter. This is a relief. I had gotten in...
I made eight predictions at the end of last year. With 2007 now about 18% finished, how am I doing? Apple has not released Leopard yet. We'll see what happens. I have a sneaking suspicion that its UI will actually end up looking very much like...
Let’s say you have a shareware application that can do exciting things like self-registration and updating on the fly. Back in the Windows XP days, supporting scenarios like these would be a cakewalk; you could simply write a serial number to HKLM...
“The frozen goober of ballpoint thing” Helen describing the obstruction at the end of a ballpoint pen that she was trying to remove by huffing hot air into the pen.
I’ll admit it: I made a rookie mistake when I migrated this weblog over to WordPress. I had been neglecting my blog for over a month, but even so, FeedBurner reported that I had more subscribers to my blog than ever before. I spent the better part...
Jeremy Jarrell raises some excellent points on his blog about the pain and suffering he goes through when trying to use Visual Studio for lightweight code editing and experimentation: [F]or just playing with scratch code while lying in bed at nigh...
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