CodeSnipers has up a list of 14 lessons learned in 2005 for starting and running a micro ISV. I’m still a bit new to the micro ISV side of my business, but I did learn a few things over the second half of the year:

Time is your most precious and valuable resource. Money is important, [...]

One of my all-time favorite Visual Studio 2003 bugs occurs when trying to build a solution with multiple projects that all reference a base library.
If any code changes in the base library, the very next build will always fail with the following error:
Could not write to output file ‘[path-to-project]\obj\Debug\[file-name].dll’ — ‘The process cannot access the [...]

CocoaRadio has an interesting interview with Wil Shipley of Delicious Monster, formerly of Omni Group.
Some great stories and discussion about NeXT, WebObjects, Web Apps, CoreData, SpotLight, Memory Management, Microsoft, and the future of Delicious Library.

37 Signals has a nice series of articles posted on how to start a small business. If you haven’t seen them, they are worth reading.

How To Get Started

Cash Flow Basics
No One Starts With a Masterpiece
Tips For Increasing Sales

2005 was an interesting year. I’m not going to list all the things that happened around the world that caught my eye, far too many have already published their own lists.
For me, 2005 was a turning point. Is a year too big to be a point in time? I don’t know, but looking [...]