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Posties in Blogroll

I’ve just updated my blogroll with my latest OPML from Sharpreader. You’ll notice a new section for Posties, who are basically people who use also PayPerPost as a source of income from their blog. I originally looked at PayPerPost (PPP) a couple of weeks back when a mate of mine,...

To all Manx techies out there

Sherrilynne Starkie, the author of Tech Talk in the Isle of Man Examiner is looking for ideas for future installments of the column. It can be about any subject at all, as long as it’s about using computing for business, or the business of computing. If anyone has any gems,...

Honesty is the best policy

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Projection

Hugh Macleod had a good cartoon up a few days ago. The interesting thing is that he’s depicting a problem he perceives in Microsoft’s marketing strategy, but in essence, it’s not an unusual problem. You tend to get this sort of problem when developers are building an application. It’s hard...

10 facts about marketers that programmers might want to know

Came across an interesting post on Sherrilynne’s blog about differences between techies and marketing folk. Her post directed me to Seth Godin’s post: Seth’s Blog: Ten things programmers might want to know about marketers. A good read if you have a couple of...

Let’s get Rory to Jamaica

My mate Rory’s getting married tomorrow. I’ve known Rory for many many years now and he’s a great guy, an extremely prolific coder and good fun to be with; so I’m looking forward to seeing him (and Karen of course) tomorrow (Wonder if they’ll bring the cats along …). Instead...

How should applications evolve?

Once an application is released to the outside world, a project gets exposed to requests for changes coming from a whole host of different parties. “Don’t Give In to Feature Demands” is an interesting article on the sort of feedback teams get and the bias different groups have when looking...

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