Sunday June 29 2008
When you need to get some creative work done after a week with too much work and too little sleep, a change of scenery helps. So I've been trying some completely mobile working.
My new phone (HTC Touch Diamond) works quite well for re...
Sunday June 29 2008
The past week has been fairly intense here, so I haven't had time to blog the latest developments on the startup. As well as having some day job deadlines to deal with, a Friday deadline for a demo resulted in a couple of days working 8am to 5am.
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Wednesday June 11 2008
When creating a new online service, two aspects of the development are particularly important:
Developing something quickly - if you don't release something you're going to have trouble making any money
Scalability and good design - if a mil...
Tuesday June 10 2008
Working on my own project, without the usual constraints of detailed requirements and specifications, I get a lot of freedom in the methodology I use.
This means that I can focus efforts a little differently - As long as the available devel...
Saturday May 31 2008
A couple of days ago I saw a post on Venture Hacks, Free Ideas - Just Add Execution, linking to Mike Speiser's blog. Mike's position is that ideas aren't valuable and execution is everything.
There are a lot of non-valuable ideas out there,...
Friday May 30 2008
A couple of weeks I posted about hiring a development team in Thailand. Having completed that process, it's now time to write about the results.
Actually getting the job ad posted took a bit more doing than expected - doing business online ...
Sunday May 25 2008
There are a lot of challenges in getting someone else to write your code, both in communicating what you want up front and in making sure that what gets written is what you wanted. This is hard enough when you have a clear requirement like duplica...
Wednesday May 14 2008
When starting a new project, the easiest option is always to do everything yourself. When that's not an option you're going to have to find someone who can do it.
Finding good developers is hard at the best of times. Finding good developers...
Monday May 12 2008
For the past few years, I have been doing software development in a corporate environment. While developing an accounts payable system for a financial services company does have its advantages, it's time for me to try the startup thing again. Alth...
Thursday February 28 2008
I finished up my last SharePoint project on Monday, and I have a few days before the next one starts. That has given me the opportunity to try some stuff I haven't been able to while busy with SharePoint, namely building a .NET 3.5 app without wor...