Help desk comparison…
I am about to begin a comparison of the various web-based help-desk/support centre software out there at the moment with a view to implementing one of them for my own business. It may be a case of the “cart before the horse” seeing as I haven’t released any products or services yet to provide support [...]
Failure to cultivate…
Ian over at Userscape, made an interesting post the other day regarding the importance of cultivating readers by responding to their comments. Oops! This is such an obviously important thing that I don’t know why I didn’t think about it before (and respond to the comment that Ian left on one of my own previous [...]
Blog software switcharoo!
I know “they” say it’s bad to switch blog software and let your URLs change and all, but I’ve just done it and switched to WordPress. However, in my case, I doubt that there’ll be any problems seeing as I have just started this blog and probably have no readers (and no links from anywhere) [...]
Microsoft Project: No good for software development?
I’ve never really used MS Project much, but thought this was an interesting article worth filing for future reference and thought. (found via majordojo)
How to do what you love…
I find most of Paul Graham‘s essays are always thoughtprovoking and interesting, and this one is no exception. To do something well you have to like it. That idea is not exactly novel. We’ve got it down to four words: “Do what you love.” But it’s not enough just to tell people that. Doing what [...]
101 Ways to Make Money off Open Source
This is an old list, but could be good inspiration at some point.
User Authentication & Subscriptions…
One of the service areas that I want to explore with this business is subscription-based web services. I’ve therefore been spending quite a bit of time looking into various user management/authentication/subscription packages that I’d be able to use. There are a heap of user management/login libraries around, but not that many that combine subscriptions and [...]
The obligatory blog…
Well, I finally have a blog up on my new business domain! A new adventure and journey is just beginning, although it will probably start off a little slowly as I still have my day job until I see how this is going to pan out (and I actually generate some income). I have plenty [...]