Month: February 2006

  • Picking your micro-ISV niche

    Bob Walsh of Safari Software and author of Micro-ISV has a great article up on his My Micro-ISV blog mentioning some basic tips on selecting your business niche and product. His two main points: “Get off the Hype Cycle” and “Don’t write a product for programmers” both seem to be very smart things to keep…

  • Top 10: Things Keeping Me From My Micro-ISV

    1. The Day Job 8 – 10 hours a day. I earn a pretty decent hourly rate, I enjoy consulting, and I certainly need the income. But, that’s a ton of time away from working on my goals for a product-based company. This also consumes the most energy and leaves little left in the tank…

  • Sparkle: Self Updating Framework for Cocoa Applications

    Mac Geekery talks about a new Cocoa framework that allows Self-Udating Programs, For Free. Sparkle is a BSD-Licensed Open-Source framework for Cocoa applications that is literally drop-dead easy to use. This is perfect timing for me. Just this week, I started writing up some requirements that my next project will need as part of it’s…