Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: The natural evolution of a startup and why it is bad. Good general overview, in a related sad note I have yet to experience all of these phases. Greatly looking forward to be able to have strong arguments for or against this in the future.
Quote: I asked him if he would come up with a few – (37signals). Boom goes the dynamite
OS X Terminal displays a blank window instead of a command prompt | MacFixIt – CNET Reviews. It is tough to get by without a reboot these days and I’m not savvy enough yet to know how to start mysql without terminal.
Hoping to Make iPhone Toys as a Full-Time Job – NYTimes.com. Spring blog cleaning here; the fact that I’m an an inconsistent blogger is highlighted by this saved draft from 4/5/2009 regarding making iPhone apps a full-time job. Back then the plan was to write an iphone app (puts me is a small pool of people…ha), throw it out there for free, learn, promote, then make money with round two.
Looking back over the goal I set last year has been interesting. While I’ve made little strides in the development of this plan I have devoted time on the thought of my applications; and in that time the app world has changed and that changes my plan. MonoTouch is a Godfather horse-head in the bed for developing iPhone apps. I wasn’t likely going to use MonoTouch but I had downloaded and played around with their tools. With Apple’s latest headlines I’m certainly not swimming without objective-c now. Additionally, changes to the commerce model allows greater app flexibility and then there’s always the iPad. It’ll be interesting to see how the next year shakes out…
How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell – The Oatmeal. One of The Oatmeal’s classics really hit home once again this week.
