This via HN today: Planning & estimating large-scale software projects.
Category Archives: Business
Parallax
Today I discovered Parallax. The company presumably named after the phenomenon.
Don’t End The Week With Nothing
This on HN today: Don’t End The Week With Nothing. It referenced Developer Evangelism: The Whole Story and Jason Cohen – Designing the perfect bootstrapped startup MicroConf 2013 (audio and transcript here). Jason Cohen’s formula is:
Predictable acquisition of recurring revenue with an annual pre-pay option with a product which solves a demonstrable, enduring pain point for a business.
When Should I Interrupt Someone?
A fun article on Hacker News today with the maxim: if you’re stuck for over an hour, seek help.
A megacorp is not your dream job
Something I already knew very well from experience but which I was happy to hear again: A megacorp is not your dream job.
Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?
Martin Fowler with Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?. Yes, he says; sort of.
Technical debt as a lack of understanding
Technical debt as a lack of understanding popped up on lobste.rs today, and I thought it was pretty good. An interesting admonition of a corporate wiki that I’m not sure I agree with… also a brief YouTube video of Ward Cunningham who invented the term “technical debt” after reading, of all people, Lakoff and Johnson, my heroes! :)
Australian Industry
I was trying to find a report on industries by market size but I wasn’t able to find what I was looking for. But I did find Australian Industry reports from ABS and List of countries by GDP sector composition which were both interesting.
Be Customer-Focused: 4 Basic Tactics
Today I came across this article: Be Customer-Focused: 4 Basic Tactics. An easy read and food for thought.
How much does it cost to run a blog?
Today I read How Much Does It Cost To Run This Blog?. The bottom line was:
| Item | Monthly Cost |
| Domain registration | £0.49 ($0.62) |
| VPS hosting | £12.00 ($15.23) |
| DNS hosting | £1.54 ($1.95) |
| WP Rocket plugin | £0.79 ($1.00) |
| ShortPixel credits | £0.65 ($0.83) |
| Updraftplus SFTP plugin | £0.79 ($1.00) |
| Yoast SEO plugin | £8.90 ($11.30) |
| Total: | £25.16 ($31.93) |