Category Archives: ISV Software Design

2009 Epic Fail. Glad Its Over. Towards 2010

By scott kane | Published: February 3, 2010

If 2008 was a good year, and in many ways it was for me, 2009 was an Epic Fail. I mean EPIC. It began with good intentions. An application to finish that was six months overdue and the core of my start-up. By years end I’d made less progress than in the last six months [...]

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BoomerApp Promotion On A Brand New Product. 100% Rebate. Klik n' Mix

By scott kane | Published: November 23, 2009

A few weeks ago however a new service was launched from the people who brought the world Bits du Jour. That service is BoomerApp. While Bits du Jour hands our full licences daily BoomerApp is instead a rebate system where-by the customer purchases in the normal way and recieves a rebate form which they return to FastSpring Ecommerce or a local representive who...

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Why I have bothered with the Windows 7 logo program

By scott kane | Published: November 8, 2009

Across on his blog Andy Bryce has written some very good reasons for why he won't be bothering with the round of Windows 7 logos marketing Microsoft has launched. First I should point out that there is a difference between the "Compatible with Windows 7 logo" and associated marketing materials and the "Certified For" program run by Microsoft. The latter, I'm in full agreement with Andy. I saw no benefit in the Vista version and see no beneift in the Windows 7 version. Rather we're talking about the logo to the left of this article.

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Copyright Law – An Australian Political Perspective

By scott kane | Published: September 7, 2009

Ordinarily I keep my political activities seperate to this blog. However I published an article today, on copyright, that may be of interest to developers and Micro ISV's, particularly those residing in Australia.It doesn't state anything we haven't heard many times before, as developers, but it is an opening gambit, in the public political sense, of mine on this issue. The objective is to raise awareness overtime and hopefully nip in the bud certain subversive influences I'm aware of, in the political scene here in Australia, in relation to this issue.

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