A fantastic blog post by Philip Kaplan illustrates the importance of getting on with the job and not spending your time worrying about which toolkit…
Continue reading Getting the job done is way more important than the tools you use
Tom's attempts to make money with Software as a Service
A fantastic blog post by Philip Kaplan illustrates the importance of getting on with the job and not spending your time worrying about which toolkit…
Continue reading Getting the job done is way more important than the tools you use
What price should I charge people for using my app? It’s a pretty basic question, and one fundamental to your business: charge too little, and people won’t use your service. Charge too much, and you’ll have the same problem.
But – and there’s always a but – if you’re taking pricing advice from people who will never pay for your service, you’re making a big mistake. Continue reading If you wouldn’t pay for my app, your pricing advice is worthless
If you’re anything like me, you have the design skills of a dead fish. This blog post on the Pulse engineering blog gives a few…
Michael Troiano has written up some great basic marketing tips. For myself, I have been sorely lacking in investing in relationships. Anyone fancy a beer/coffee…
Have you ever felt a distinct lack of respect in the office? Or that you’re not being paid fairly? That’s the gist of a post currently being debated on Hacker News. I disagree with the post on several counts; after all, programming is an awesome job to have! Continue reading Programming – an awesome job to have
Notch is a developer of a very popular game called MineCraft. His company’s currently developing a new game, which has got into a trademark dispute…
One principle behind developing web apps is that you should aim to fail fast, meaning that if your idea isn’t working out, it’s better that you find out it’s not viable before you invest a lot of time and effort in it. The problem is: it’s not always easy to give up on your dreams.
This is what is currently happening with CampaignBar, a tool that I very much believe in, but that has not brought in a single paltry cent. Continue reading Failing Fast Is Not Fun, Satisfying or Pleasant
It’s always scary when you read of zero-day WordPress vulnerabilities, and this is a big one. As described on Mark Maunder’s blog, many themes use…
Continue reading Zero Day WordPress Vulnerability. Check your themes’ timthumb.php and thumb.php.