It's Putz-Off Time!!!
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Whoo-hoo! Four-plus years of learning/programming/bug-fixing, and at last I have a stable version of my dream from long ago. What a way to start off the New Year. I'm gonna be lazy the rest of this week! Clean my desk. Try not to look a the computer. Start Yoga. Get some exercise. Listen to loud music and dance around foolishly. And lots of naps! Hope this post doesn't come across as an add. It's just that the process took so long that I feel like screaming to everyone "It's Done!" It was much more work than I ever anticipated. But it does some things I haven't seen in any other program at the price. (It is also the first program with docking windows I have ever seen with flicker-free resizing, but you must use 'Classic Interface' [or whatever it's called] in XP styles to see what I'm talking about.) If you check it out and come across a bug I missed, or just a suggestion, I'll get back to you in about a week! David Debugging - The high art and magic of cussing errors into 'features'
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Whoo-hoo! Four-plus years of learning/programming/bug-fixing, and at last I have a stable version of my dream from long ago. What a way to start off the New Year. I'm gonna be lazy the rest of this week! Clean my desk. Try not to look a the computer. Start Yoga. Get some exercise. Listen to loud music and dance around foolishly. And lots of naps! Hope this post doesn't come across as an add. It's just that the process took so long that I feel like screaming to everyone "It's Done!" It was much more work than I ever anticipated. But it does some things I haven't seen in any other program at the price. (It is also the first program with docking windows I have ever seen with flicker-free resizing, but you must use 'Classic Interface' [or whatever it's called] in XP styles to see what I'm talking about.) If you check it out and come across a bug I missed, or just a suggestion, I'll get back to you in about a week! David Debugging - The high art and magic of cussing errors into 'features'
Well done David. I know the feeling well - my company's first commercial product was released just last month after a year of development. The signs are very good so far; lots of downloads, several sales (not bad considering virtually all of the downloads are within their trial period), and lots of enquiries and feature requests - many of which are for features we've already planned or are already working on. :) Remember though that getting the product ready is just one small part of the process - you also have to market and support it. That's easily as difficult as developing the product itself. Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
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Well done David. I know the feeling well - my company's first commercial product was released just last month after a year of development. The signs are very good so far; lots of downloads, several sales (not bad considering virtually all of the downloads are within their trial period), and lots of enquiries and feature requests - many of which are for features we've already planned or are already working on. :) Remember though that getting the product ready is just one small part of the process - you also have to market and support it. That's easily as difficult as developing the product itself. Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
Remember though that getting the product ready is just one small part of the process - you also have to market and support it. That's easily as difficult as developing the product itself.
Wow, what a buzz kill ;)
Maybe, but sometimes we owe it to ourselves to be realistic about "the rest" of the work we set ourselves up for... :rolleyes: Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
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Well done David. I know the feeling well - my company's first commercial product was released just last month after a year of development. The signs are very good so far; lots of downloads, several sales (not bad considering virtually all of the downloads are within their trial period), and lots of enquiries and feature requests - many of which are for features we've already planned or are already working on. :) Remember though that getting the product ready is just one small part of the process - you also have to market and support it. That's easily as difficult as developing the product itself. Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
Remember though that getting the product ready is just one small part of the process - you also have to market and support it. That's easily as difficult as developing the product itself.
That is why I am in a slightly different biz. I just have to defend my work, which is not always easy... I just give presentations here there and everywhere as promotion. Word-of-mouth works well in my biz because standard advertising just doesn't work. Support, we're all in the same boat there is no escaping that. :) _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)