BackupBrain: My MicroISV Venture

Quite an amusing blog post on how to write liability-proof software…

Unreliable Programming: a method for evading liability claims on software.

I first discovered John Gunning’s ISV blog, SmallISV, back in February. I was interested in his blog then as he is a fellow Aussie ISV. However, at the time, it seemed like he lost interest in posting to his blog, but now I know why: he’s been busily coding his first product, which has launched recently: Bi Documenter.
Congratulations on your first launch, John!

“Are you fed up with that lame old directory manager your hosting company provided you with for you website or blog? If you are already familiar with windows or mac file browsers, why should you have to change the way you work for the web? Try Relay for a change.”

Relay, a directory manager and file uploader, has been released as open source. I haven’t had a look at the code yet, or attempted to install it myself, but the demo looks good. At the very least, it could be a good base to build upon for other projects.

Here’s an old, but interesting post, on writing blog posts when you are picked up by a planet:
How to blog for a planet…

It may be interesting to those who are picked up by our friendly MicroISV planet.