Archive for November, 2006

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Another ‘hackaton’

This time the hackaton was not as much a hackaton as a regular meeting.
Alex and I met up on Sunday morning and started to outline what we needed to do during the day and got started. We got surprisingly much work done. I was working on the back-end of our product, while Alex worked on […]

Saturday, November 11th, 2006

Still Waiting For Our LLC-papers

If you’ve followed the posts on the blog since we started, you might recall that we filled out our Article of Incorporation for LLC about 3 weeks ago. Well, we still haven’t received any papers back yet. The Secretary of State haven’t even deposited the check yet. This is kind of annoying.
Anyhow, this doesn’t stop […]

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

3 Reasons Why Comments Won’t Make Your Fame

Today I read this article on Nongeek perspective: Things To Keep In Mind When Promoting Your Blog Through Comments - Nongeek perspective. As you might have guessed, it’s about using comments to get links to your blog.
This might seem like a good idea. If you’re a super commenter you can get your link into very […]

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

Save $1,285 per Computer and Still Remain Business-ready

(In the scope of this article, I assume a typical office-environment that include standard PCs running Microsoft Windows with Microsoft Office.)
Everyone knows that buying software can be really expensive, and I can see why both private users and businesses sometimes use illegal copies of software. However, I can also see why software is expensive. Software […]

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

Top 5 Reasons Why Universities Fail

The other day I wrote about how much trouble highly educated programmers had solving a simple problem. I have long harbored a suspicion that part of the problem is the way universities work. Universities almost invariably produce inflexible text book memorizing victims rather than people prepared for real life work. This is exactly the people […]