Paying off your software debt
How often have you heard heard it said, “How much will it cost me to have new feature (x)?”. If you’re in business and you commission bespoke software or if you’re a software developer or project manager you’ll have heard this before. The truth is there are two answers to this question: “as cheap as possible despite making things harder in the future”, or “take the time now to re-factor (re-work) existing code to make a clean enhancement”. Read more
The Evolved ISV: 300 comments, 91 posts and 33 subscribers
February 7, 2009 by mike · Leave a Comment
About six months after I started blogging I posted about how much progress the blog had made. Almost another year on it now seems that this would be a good time to post some more statistics for my blog. In March 2008, I had reached a consistent 100 unique visitors a day. By March I was peaking at 200 unique visitors, and in June everything went nuts for a short period as the 30 day challenge got started. I’m getting about 200 unique visitors a day, about 20 returning visitors and each visitor on average visits 2.5 pages each.
Starting a business in the middle of a recession. Am I crazy?
January 26, 2009 by mike · 5 Comments
You’ve probably noticed that across the world we’re all experiencing a financial crisis, a global financial meltdown that has driven the UK into a strong recession. You might be one of the people who have been directly affected by this or you might be working or investing in industries that are relatively untouched. In any case, I would like to tell you a little about a nice little start-up that I’m involved with and why I feel that the current shaky economic conditions might not be as bad for starting a new enterprise as we’ve been led to think. At least, I hope so.
