On “The Right Idea”…
Gavin Bowman’s written a food-for-thought post about good ideas versus execution: If I believe everything I read: ideas are cheap; it’s all about execution. Developers are sitting on dozens of great ideas for products or services, if they only had enough time and funding. It wouldn’t matter which idea they chose, as long as the [...]
Wikis and the Micro-ISV…
And now for something completely different… Wikis are a simple, yet amazingly versatile and useful software concept. I’ve used one for the last few years on a personal domain as a scratchpad and notebook for the various tips, tricks, and clever solutions I discover in my day-to-day work. It’s not a known wiki and it’s [...]
Picking my Micro-ISV niche
There’s a good post over at MyMicroISV on Picking your micro-ISV niche. He gave a useful link to a Squidoo lens about the long tail. If, like me, you’ve often heard reference to the long tail concept, but weren’t sure exactly what it is, that lens contains some good links to help clarify things. In [...]
Help desk contenders: First Looks – commercial contenders
And, now I continue my investigation with a first look at commercial help desk solutions… (note: that I haven’t yet installed any of these myself. I have formed my opinions from the product’s own web site, tours and any other reviews I’ve come across. I want to see what is/is not worth installing for a [...]
SmallISV: Another new ISV blogger…
Another new Micro-ISV blog begins… smallisv.wordpress.com… is by John Gunning and, although he’s only got two posts up at the moment, I’ll be interested in following his progress and his perspectives on starting a business from my side of the world (him being a fellow Aussie). At this stage, I’m not sure what type of [...]
Javascript/AJAX UI libraries…
This post from Kevin, reminded me that I really need to investigate some of the various JavaScript UI libraries myself. So far the ones I want to have a play with, including the couple from Kevin’s link, are: Prototype Rico, which is built on Prototype MochiKit Dojo Yahoo’s UI contribution x-desktop and idots2 AjaxTK (added [...]
Help Desk Contenders: First Looks – open source
I thought a better way to start my comparison of available help desk software would be to go back and have a look at each of their sites, check out any online demo versions and draw up a short list of contenders for further evaluation (i.e. actual installation on my own site). The list came [...]
VMware Server…
This is last week’s news I know, but I thought it was worth comment. VMware Server now being free is a huge gift to the Micro-ISV community, methinks. I’ve downloaded it and given it a quick test, and it looks great so far. I have recently been evaluating both VMware Workstation and Parallels Workstation with [...]
Scratching an itch
I’ve been doing a bit of reading tonight and came across this article from Evan William’s, of Blogger fame, on “Ten Rules for Web Startups“… “No. 6. Be Self Centered – Great products almost always come from someone scratching their own itch. Create something you want to exist in the world. Be a user of [...]
Vaporware…
From Wired: Vaporware: Better Late Than Never The lesson for all good Micro-ISVs? Never announce product release dates!