Category: Software Products

Happy Anniversary! (If belated...)

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Ah, the joys of reuse... but beware of productization

After I have decided to go for the localization tool (I find it difficult to blog about it without having a proper name for it first—usually, apart from my dubious company name, naming is not one of my weaknesses), I moved a great deal of the codebase of my other product development into a separate DLL for reuse. That class library, dubbed AuthorBase, now provides a pretty complete framework to easily and quickly create the scaffolding for an application that has some or all of the following requirements:

A Micro-ISV diversion

While I continue developing my other major software product I have after a few hours of pondering decided to start developing another one concurrently. This one will be purely open-book development: I will blog about the whole process, gather feedback and ideas from others all the time, and hope to attract a small number of people interested in the tool and test-driving it for their own needs.

Micro-ISV "opportunities": pick one for life

I have waited for this one: The new Google desktop application (via Dennis ). I used to dislike the web user interface so much that I'd rather not go in there to check stats or optimize ads at all! Such a "mission-critical" tool (for Google just as crucial as for their advertisers) certainly should provide an enjoyable experience (in software, if a tool performs according to expectations and behaves responsively, that already counts as an enjoyable experience). The web interface, while doing its core job satisfactorily, in my opinion didn't really deliver that.