Wow, writing software is hard :p
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That's when you're supposed to put your big tool in the box. Now to see who gets the reference.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
Well it's a damn big tool. And sometimes it takes a while to get back in the box. And now these damn little Googley cars zip by and take snapshots while I'm in the middle trying to do all this, it makes me nervous and clumsy! What to do, what to do...
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow
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Well it's a damn big tool. And sometimes it takes a while to get back in the box. And now these damn little Googley cars zip by and take snapshots while I'm in the middle trying to do all this, it makes me nervous and clumsy! What to do, what to do...
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow
You think that's bad the airport has a sign that says no tools over 7" allowed through security.
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane
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I am finally biting the bullet and authoring a commercial application of my own. Wow, I thought I'd be finished in a week! On a serious note it is giving me a better understanding of how one man operations are serious competitors. I get to spend time on working on features that are useful and ignoring the 1% case that ties business software development up for months with no progress, I'm not supporting multiple databases, I don't care about Linux, and web-enabled? maybe V2!
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane
Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
V2
V2 can be easier to import into London than V1; with V1 they only hear the buzz... :~
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You think that's bad the airport has a sign that says no tools over 7" allowed through security.
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane
You know it's clearly totalitarian, maoist-leftist dictats like that that make me realize ho far we've drifted from our true democratic Jeffersonian ideals! I say we rise up and strike a vote for freedom! Rise up and say "Tools of all sizes, Unite!"
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
my tool will only be used in-house
I only use my tool in-house. It's probably better that way.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001 -
Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
V2
V2 can be easier to import into London than V1; with V1 they only hear the buzz... :~
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I am finally biting the bullet and authoring a commercial application of my own. Wow, I thought I'd be finished in a week! On a serious note it is giving me a better understanding of how one man operations are serious competitors. I get to spend time on working on features that are useful and ignoring the 1% case that ties business software development up for months with no progress, I'm not supporting multiple databases, I don't care about Linux, and web-enabled? maybe V2!
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane
Yes, it is. I had to unlearn just about everything I knew about the way to develop software (especially the documentation bit!) when we struck out on our own. We eventually settled on a basic agile process which seems to work very well. Aside from the business stuff, key lessons we've learnt are to use TDD and refactor as much as practical, keep track of complexity metrics in each build (to make sure that refactoring and the addition of new features is making the software less, not more complex) and keep a customer friendly version history with the code (just a version.txt alongside the solution) so there is no faffing around rewriting change data out of SCC at release time. On the business side there's lots more of course - particularly as this is the first ISV venture I've been involved with. Six years later we're still here, and with a 300kLOC codebase shared between two developers life certainly ain't boring. :-\
Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
modified on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 6:39 AM
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Yes, it is. I had to unlearn just about everything I knew about the way to develop software (especially the documentation bit!) when we struck out on our own. We eventually settled on a basic agile process which seems to work very well. Aside from the business stuff, key lessons we've learnt are to use TDD and refactor as much as practical, keep track of complexity metrics in each build (to make sure that refactoring and the addition of new features is making the software less, not more complex) and keep a customer friendly version history with the code (just a version.txt alongside the solution) so there is no faffing around rewriting change data out of SCC at release time. On the business side there's lots more of course - particularly as this is the first ISV venture I've been involved with. Six years later we're still here, and with a 300kLOC codebase shared between two developers life certainly ain't boring. :-\
Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
modified on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 6:39 AM
I just noticed the new sig, Anna: :cool:. I'm going to see how often I can use the phrase 'multi-paradigm carnage' today :-D.
Software Zen:
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I just noticed the new sig, Anna: :cool:. I'm going to see how often I can use the phrase 'multi-paradigm carnage' today :-D.
Software Zen:
delete this;Glad you like it. :)
Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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I am finally biting the bullet and authoring a commercial application of my own. Wow, I thought I'd be finished in a week! On a serious note it is giving me a better understanding of how one man operations are serious competitors. I get to spend time on working on features that are useful and ignoring the 1% case that ties business software development up for months with no progress, I'm not supporting multiple databases, I don't care about Linux, and web-enabled? maybe V2!
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane
Grats! I found my way into programming in the same manner. Needed a database program to replace Quickbooks. Took about six months of playing around but the time spent has definitely paid off:)
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I am finally biting the bullet and authoring a commercial application of my own. Wow, I thought I'd be finished in a week! On a serious note it is giving me a better understanding of how one man operations are serious competitors. I get to spend time on working on features that are useful and ignoring the 1% case that ties business software development up for months with no progress, I'm not supporting multiple databases, I don't care about Linux, and web-enabled? maybe V2!
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane
I found myself in a similar situation. Me an a group of friends started developing a software that is hard to find in the marked and the ones available are usually too expensive and/or use old technologies and has poor performance or are part of big systems (like ERPs). We thought, hey, it's not that complicated to do it (not overly simple either, some parts we are still researching on how to do it and implement) and we can charge it cheap and sell many. We have a market gap to fill: small to medium enterprieses. A few months later comes a disappointment. Despite being hard to find, we found a similar and cheap solution on MercadoLivre (Brazilian eBay). It's still old, uses Paradox DB, but it was right in the gap we were trying to fill (the price). We are still going to finish the product, however, we will try to be better (better marketing, be easier to find). We will also start on our own backyard, being able to sell and support stuff face to face is a big advantage, later we try to stablish our marked on wider areas. Anyway, it's great you've found that opportunity, when your tool grows, you can support more stuff, you can pay people to do that for you. That's what we intend here too. We support a very small set of hardware, SQL Server only and we are not web-enabled yet. But, who knows of V2? :)
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
my tool will only be used in-house
I only use my tool in-house. It's probably better that way.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001"I only use my tool in-house. It's probably better that way." And never, never, NEVER let anyone borrow your tool. No telling when they'll bring it back.
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I found writing commercial software a daunting task, having been weaned on corporate solutions for a number of years I then took on the project of writing a commercial package, what an eye opener. The level of detail and the quality of the application was much greater than mere corporate systems. I hope you have a plan for deployment and a good support model. We went broke selling a great app with no support model.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Yes - after writing commercial software for over 20 years doing this inside corporate stuff with captive users is a breeze! Users can be "disciplined" for causing screw ups - yay! You will find that a good 75% of your code will be catching the idiots entering bad data and trying to do things backwards. And don't, please don't, hard code tax percentages! I have spent far too many boring hours hunting through pages and pages of code for GST percentages.
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Its a joke, you can't have attributes with out values or attributes in end tags. Thus <curious mode> is an invalid start tag, and </curious mode> is an invalid end tag.
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane
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I am finally biting the bullet and authoring a commercial application of my own. Wow, I thought I'd be finished in a week! On a serious note it is giving me a better understanding of how one man operations are serious competitors. I get to spend time on working on features that are useful and ignoring the 1% case that ties business software development up for months with no progress, I'm not supporting multiple databases, I don't care about Linux, and web-enabled? maybe V2!
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane
Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
I am finally biting the bullet and authoring a commercial application of my own. Wow, I thought I'd be finished in a week! On a serious note it is giving me a better understanding of how one man operations are serious competitors. I get to spend time on working on features that are useful and ignoring the 1% case that ties business software development up for months with no progress, I'm not supporting multiple databases, I don't care about Linux, and web-enabled? maybe V2!
Good for you: go for it. Yes, writing software is hard. Very rewarding to see a plan come together, though. Just don't get "featuritis". Make it work right, then add features. -Max :-)
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I am finally biting the bullet and authoring a commercial application of my own. Wow, I thought I'd be finished in a week! On a serious note it is giving me a better understanding of how one man operations are serious competitors. I get to spend time on working on features that are useful and ignoring the 1% case that ties business software development up for months with no progress, I'm not supporting multiple databases, I don't care about Linux, and web-enabled? maybe V2!
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane
I know what you mean about the 1%. My boss will have me jump through all kinds of hoops to provide software mechanisms to deal with situations in our processes that have never happened before and are unlikely to happen again for another 5 years. I think I've spent half my career programming for 1000 to 1 scenarios. Well, at least it keeps me employed.
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I found writing commercial software a daunting task, having been weaned on corporate solutions for a number of years I then took on the project of writing a commercial package, what an eye opener. The level of detail and the quality of the application was much greater than mere corporate systems. I hope you have a plan for deployment and a good support model. We went broke selling a great app with no support model.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Mr. Holmes, I have embarked on writing my first commercial package. I have been working with corporate solutions for a long time, and seeing your message about the "daunting task" I figured you might be willing to either give some concrete suggestions or point me to some existing "helps" for this new venture. Thanks, Vic Rauch
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I found writing commercial software a daunting task, having been weaned on corporate solutions for a number of years I then took on the project of writing a commercial package, what an eye opener. The level of detail and the quality of the application was much greater than mere corporate systems. I hope you have a plan for deployment and a good support model. We went broke selling a great app with no support model.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Haven't you learned from the big wigs yet? You never SELL anything, then they OWN it. You license it for a certain time frame, and then re-license it, etc.
englebart wrote:
You license it for a certain time frame, and then re-license it, etc
This was in the 90s and yes we SOLD it and yes we did go broke. I totally understand the licencing concept NOW (I'm paying so many).
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Mr. Holmes, I have embarked on writing my first commercial package. I have been working with corporate solutions for a long time, and seeing your message about the "daunting task" I figured you might be willing to either give some concrete suggestions or point me to some existing "helps" for this new venture. Thanks, Vic Rauch
I am probably the last person to take advice from, I'm a failed software entrepreneur, there are some on here who have been very successful at this and they are the ones you need to winkle out. I beleive there are a number of articles here on starting your own business. Marc Clifton is one and he has this article. Diary Of A CEO - The Really Hard Part[^]
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH