Archive for April, 2011

Read this free Book

Friday, April 29th, 2011

Earlier this week I downloaded a free kindle book. If you don’t have a kindle, install the desktop application or phone app. This is a book that everyone should read. It’s short – you can probably read the whole thing in less than 1 hour. It’s called Do The Work by Steven Pressfield. Author of [...]

Programmer vs Entreprenur

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

I went to school to learn how to program.  In fact I went to one of the best Computer Science schools in Canada – University of Waterloo.  While there I took all of the hardest courses I could fit into my schedule including 2 of the “big three” – Graphics and Real-time Operating Systems – [...]

Schrödinger’s Programmer

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

Schrödinger’s Programmer is a thought experiment. A real-life paradox which comes as a result of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. The thought experiment presents a programmer that may or may not have written software. You have a closed office. In this office is a computer (with internet access) and a software programmer. She is [...]

Poking the Box

Monday, April 25th, 2011

Just a couple of weeks ago I bought Seth Godin’s latest book “Poke The Box” for my Kindle.  It’s a really short book and took just an hour or two to get through but it was a great motivator.  Definitely the kind of book that I could read once or twice a year as a [...]

Planning a Launch

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

I have spent a significant amount of money over the years learning how to do a big product launch on the Internet. (One $2000 course, and one 3 day conference in Phoenix)  There are many things to think about and a lot of moving pieces to schedule to pull off a successful launch. The launch [...]

Entrepreneurship Skills and Phases

Monday, April 4th, 2011

Within the last week I have nailed down the final set of features and bug fixes for Automatic Blog Machine. It’s now in a stage where the development is finished and I can start focusing on the sales and marketing push and finally release it out to people like you who may be interested in [...]

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Friday, April 1st, 2011

Mobile platforms are the new hotness. The growth is explosive as more and more smart phones get bought up but the problem is that unlike PC development and web development there isn’t a standard way of writing applications that will work across platforms. The two major smart phone platforms – Android and iOS are the [...]