Archive | April, 2008

Cracks, Hacks, Keygens, Torrent Files and Lamers

by Scott Kane on April 28, 2008 in Anti-Piracy, Download Sites Are Spam

First off, if you arrived at this page looking for any of the above you are now officially disappointed and probably deservingly labeled the last noun of the above title.  To bad, how sad, to make you feel better however you can visit this link in order to get some value added information in your [...]

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For crying out loud – design it, don’t rip it!

by Scott Kane on April 26, 2008 in ISV Software Design, Uncategorized

You’ve passed your apprenticeship, you can code confidently and at the very least competently and now you’re striking out on your own because you have that creative spur to *do something*. So why on Earth, or Mars or Venus would you rip the code from a component vendor’s demo, make a few cosmetic changes and [...]

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Starting A New mISV

by Scott Kane on April 23, 2008 in Starting an mISV, Uncategorized

After being out of software development in any real commercial sense for almost six years now, a foray into audio (my other love) and a lengthy stretch of personal, debilitating illness I’m at last ready to strike out with a new business as a mISV.  The software I’ve chosen (which I will disclose here in [...]

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"Who do you want to annoy today?"

by Scott Kane on April 14, 2008 in General ISV Issues, Uncategorized

Remember the Windows 95 release and the advertising slogan from Microsoft?  Well times have changed and it seems Microsoft are applying a different philosophy.  “Where” and “Go” have been replaced by “Who” and “annoy” with the announcement that they intended UAC to annoy people in Vista.  Yep – it’s not a goof folks, according to [...]

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An Example

by Scott Kane on April 10, 2008 in ISV Software Design, Uncategorized

In my last entry I bemoaned the look of most mISV software (and some bigger ISV’s too) and how amatuer it looked in general.  I thought it’d be nice if I showed an example of a product (that I have no relationship with at all) that simply looks well done and balanced.  See this link at [...]

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