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May 01, 2007

To those of you who think Microsoft is lame

From John Udell regarding our announcements yesterday morning: “Look, I’ve got IronPython using ActiveRecord and LINQ, all inside the Safari browser on my Mac, and I’m debugging it in Visual Studio remotely from my PC.” These kinds of scenarios ar...

Apr 23, 2007

Beryl: Oh, the hypocrisy!

<BeforeYouFlameMe>Yes, I understand that one person does not represent the full Slashdot groupthink</BeforeYouFlameMe> A common battlecry of Slashdotters is ‘you’re wasting my CPU cycles/GPU cycles/RAM/whatever; turn off the eye candy and give me...

Apr 03, 2007
iRooster

More on iRooster 3.0

I seem to have settled into a routine of working on iRooster for about 90 minutes every day. Unfortunately, I don’t have more time than that with my day job taking 11 or 12 hours every day (plus a few more hours on the weekend). Even still, I’m ma...

Apr 02, 2007
Apple

iRooster and Murphy' Law

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 ...

Mar 23, 2007
Business

Great idea, but you’ll still be eating ramen

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...

Mar 21, 2007

John Gabriel' G.I.F. Theory Proven Correct Again

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...

Mar 19, 2007
Advertising Meta

The ‘big’ payoff

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...

Mar 14, 2007
Marketing

Scoble' Videos Suck

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...

Mar 09, 2007
Meta

Update on end of year predictions

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...

Feb 28, 2007
UAC Vista

Meet UAC - Why you must factor out your apps’ admin components

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...