Priorities
Spolsky: "If you're doing things for one customer, you've either got a loose cannon sales person, or you're slipping dangerously down the slope towards consultingware. And there's nothing wrong with consultingware; it's a very comfortable slope to slip down, but it's just not as profitable as shrinkwrap software"
emotional porn
People choose the products they buy - apart from price - for three reasons:
- How they see themselves
- How they want to see themselves
- How they want to be seen
Hugh has more :)
- How they see themselves
- How they want to see themselves
- How they want to be seen
Hugh has more :)
No EU software patents
Evil, Wrong, Bad and Ugly
Doc Searls on DRM: "Been there, done that, burned the t-shirt"
No Software Patents
nosoftwarepatents.com: "The
mind has always been sacrosanct. The claim that intellectual processes
and logical procedures (that do not primarily manipulate devices) can
be possessed and monopolized extends greed and avarice much too far."
Making Wrong Code Look Wrong
Joel's at it again: "And
pretty soon you forget all about that and then you can start obsessing
about something else irrelevant to making money like replacing one kind
of string class with another kind of string class"
Adobe + Macromedia revisited
The Register:
The acquisition of the much smaller Macromedia won't tip the balance of
Adobe's activity to the web, and it is likely to put a brake on
Macromedia's innovative and energetic development around Dreamweaver
and Flash.
Geeks rule
Eric Sink explains why it's important that "non-coders" in a sw company also have to understand technology.
Ads + RSS?
Adobe buys Macromedia - In plain english
Read the non-marketing version of the FAQ that gives the details on the Adobe-Macromedia merger.
More on the merger
"It’s a safe bet to say that soon, we’ll be able to generate PDFs
from Flash movies with a ColdFusion backend that plays back video
edited in Premiere wrapped in an interface laid out in Dreamweaver,
designed in Fireworks and colored in Illustrator."
From Gizmodo
From Gizmodo
Adobe + Macromedia
1. Most software fails because it is designed to fail
Politics-Oriented Software Development
My favourite:
"Remember that managers are essentially secretaries who can fire you"
Excellent!
My favourite:
"Remember that managers are essentially secretaries who can fire you"
Excellent!
About Google - Insightful stuff
John Heilemann writes:
"Journey to the (Revoltionary, Evil-Hating, Cash-Crazy, and Possibly Self-Destructive) Center of Google"
"Journey to the (Revoltionary, Evil-Hating, Cash-Crazy, and Possibly Self-Destructive) Center of Google"
Why Craigslist Works
Groupware Bad
"Groupware" is all about things like "workflow", which means,
"the chairman of the committee has emailed me this checklist, and I'm
done with item 3, so I want to check off item 3, so this document must
be sent back to my supervisor to approve the fact that item 3 is
changing from `unchecked' to `checked', and once he does that, it can
be directed back to committee for review."
Nobody cares about that shit. Nobody you'd want to talk to, anyway.
Make software for users, not managers
Nobody cares about that shit. Nobody you'd want to talk to, anyway.
Make software for users, not managers
Tenets of Transparency
Software pricing
Joel has a GREAT article on how to put a price tag on your software product. It's a must read, and it doesn't help you a bit.
Positioning Your Software Product
Rick Chapman has written a great article on how to position your software product.
