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Fail – Degrees Of Separation – Negatives And Pluses ISV Style

by Scott Kane on August 17, 2010 in 30Dayers, General ISV Issues, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV, bootstrap isv

Negatives happen, fails occur. They are not signals to quit in all instances, or even most. They are grist for our respective mills. You might have three months or thirty years experience in an industry but you’re going to make mistakes, you’re going to have failures. It is not the end of the world.

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VPS Update – Need For Speed

by Scott Kane on August 8, 2010 in 30Dayers, General ISV Issues, Google, ISV Marketing, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV

Now that Google has admitted site speed is a part of their ranking factor for websites – read Matt Cutts article, he suggests this is not a panic issue – and given I saw results for myself in the additional speed verses rank I figured it would hurt to play with what was reportedly a quicker service recently – Linode…

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Copyright Law – An Australian Political Perspective

by Scott Kane on September 7, 2009 in 30Dayers, Anti-Piracy, Featured Articles, General ISV Issues, ISV Marketing, ISV Software Design, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV, bootstrap isv

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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Delphi DCU Virus – SysConst.pas Library Source Injection. Athena Virus?

Delphi DCU Virus – SysConst.pas Library Source Injection. Athena Virus?

by Scott Kane on September 6, 2009 in 30Dayers, Featured Articles, General ISV Issues, ISV Software Design, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV

OK. I’ve not had a chance to confirm this myself, but at least one anti malware company is supporting the claim it seems – Bit Defender.
Allegedly this piece of malware does the following:

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Now Download . Com – Yes folks searching for this. It is a SCAM!

Now Download . Com – Yes folks searching for this. It is a SCAM!

by Scott Kane on August 31, 2009 in Download Sites Are Spam, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV

Yes. NowDownload is a scam. That is why it’s disappeared off the Internet. The registrar for the domain name is GoDaddy. The owner is a Pablo Soto. The address listed for him – if real – is:

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