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Stunday

by Scott Kane on May 30, 2008 in Starting an mISV

It’s 11:00pm Friday 30th May as I write this and the title of this post is not a spelling error.

I’m into my old developer “bad habits” working the “Stunday”. When I was a corporate dev’ we referred to the day between Saturday and Sunday as “Stunday”, the “day all the stuff needing done gets done”. There have been a lot of “Stunday’s” this week!

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Comfort Zones

by Scott Kane on May 28, 2008 in Starting an mISV, Uncategorized

One “criticism”, if that is a fair word to use in this instance, of this exercise of code an application and release in 30 days that has been levelled towards a post I posted in a private forum regarding this, was that “If I were writing an application in 30 Days I wouldn’t have time to write a blog.” Sardonic replies from me there to that aside for a moment. It’s possibly about “comfort zones”.

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mISV Release In 30 Days Or Bust Trying

by Scott Kane on May 27, 2008 in Starting an mISV

Recently on the Business of Software Forums Patrick McKenzie of BingoCard Creator fame announced he was about to embark on his second mISV product and was planning on an early July release. As it’s towards the end of May as I write this that’s as close to a “30 Day Develop and Release” window as you’re likely to get.

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Windows 7 By 11 ?

by Scott Kane on May 14, 2008 in General ISV Issues

There’s a lot of talk right now about Microsoft’s Windows 7 (no flashy names yet, like XP, or Vista, or Tigger or Beeghara, MS don’t use big cat names anyway ), but most of it is utter tripe and speculation.

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