After my last post I got to thinking about what should be in a first release to make it worth the download, worth the “Get” from the App Store. Sometimes you need to ship the imperfect ship to get it out the door and start getting feedback from customers, but if it’s a dog’s breakfast you are shipping, it will be a dog’s feedback you will receive from your customers. Some general thoughts on what…
How many times have you looked at your phone and wondered what has happening? What about reading the KB article referenced in a new piece of software that is now six months too old? What about trying to find a link you just saved on your phone only to find out that it only works on your phone app and doesn’t transfer to your desktop? How about when all these things are happening and you’re…
You might have noticed no emails coming through in the last month for new posts. Google pulled a fast one with their SPAM engine sending many of these to the trash and I decided it was time to upgrade to something that little more powerful (and possibly more poetic) – Mailchimp. Like any upgrade, there are always hits and misses in trying to figure things out and get it all to work. Hopefully I figured…
It doesn’t matter how big your truck. It doesn’t matter what kind of drive train you have. It doesn’t matter how many bells and whistles you have. It doesn’t matter who you call with their fancy tow truck with the promise to get you out. It doesn’t matter what association you belong to. It doesn’t matter how much prep you’ve done to get the job done. Sometimes it simply comes down to using the simplest…
It’s tempting to redo a project that is similar to what you just built in the same way, to copy, paste and update. It’s tempting to pass this on as something new because it looks a little different on the outside but is the same on the inside. It’s safer to do things the way they were done before because that worked then and should work now. It’s easier to not take any risks because…