Archive | 2009

07 December 2009 ~ 4 Comments

Time for a change

Time for a change

The past
I’ve been blogging here since December, 2006. In that time, I’ve covered lots of random topics, including building my first product. I haven’t (yet) blogged about shutting it down, but that topic is on the short list to cover soon. The last three years have been good, but things are about [...]

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18 November 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Marketing Books for Small Businesses

Marketing Books for Small Businesses

Someone just posted a question over on the Business of Software forum asking for recommendations on books and blogs related to sales. Since I’ve been doing a lot of reading on marketing (I know, marketing isn’t sales, but they go hand in hand), I figured I’d post my reading list so that others might [...]

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01 November 2009 ~ 8 Comments

Double your productivity with 1 tip

Double your productivity with 1 tip

Starting a business is a lot of work, especially when you’re doing it all yourself. I need all the hours I can get in a day, so I came up with a handy little practice that’s really increased my productivity. Yes, I’d even say it’s doubled it (hmmm…does that mean it was abnormally [...]

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26 October 2009 ~ 1 Comment

The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding – Summary

UPDATE Looking for more marketing books? Here’s a list of good ones that I’ve read recently (or am planning to read).
I just read The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding and was happy that I set aside a couple of hours to do so.
I’m currently working on a new product and a lot of [...]

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22 October 2009 ~ 4 Comments

Installing SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) with Groovy and Grails Support

UPDATE There’s an excellent article on the Grails website that walks through installing and using STS with Grails support. I recommend you use that guide instead of the one below.
STS 2.2.0 was released today with support for Groovy and Grails development. If you’re new to STS, the route to getting everything working might [...]

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20 October 2009 ~ 3 Comments

REVISITED: What is Right with Grails and Wrong with Maven

With regard to my previous post, it looks like I pulled the Maven command from an old set of documentation. I believe the preferred way to create a new Grails app with Maven is a command like the following:
mvn grails:create-app appName
I can’t say I don’t have anything against Maven, because I don’t like it. [...]

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15 October 2009 ~ 7 Comments

What is Right with Grails and Wrong with Maven

This just cracks me up.Here’s how to create a Grails app using the Grails command line:grails create-app demoAnd here’s how to create the app using the Maven command line:mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:2.0-alpha-4:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.grails -DarchetypeArtifactId=grails-maven-archetype -DarchetypeVersion=1.1 -DgroupId=example -DartifactId=demo

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19 May 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Triangle microISV Group May Meeting Tonight (Tuesday)

This is your friendly reminder that the Triangle microISV Group is having its 5th meeting tonight (Tuesday, May 19th, 7pm, Southpoint Panera).
This will be our 5th meetup – the first 4 have been great – I think the people who have come have really enjoyed themselves and found it worthwhile.
Here’s the agenda:
The fifth Triangle microISV [...]

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24 March 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Triangle microISV Group March Madness Meeting this Wednesday

This is your friendly reminder that the Triangle microISV Group is having its March Madness meeting tomorrow (Wednesday, March 25th, 7pm, Southpoint Panera). For you NCAA fans, make note that there are no games tomorrow night, so you should be free to come to the meetup!
This will be our 3rd meetup – the first [...]

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23 February 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Triangle microISV Group meeting this Tuesday, Feb. 24th – Be There!

Just a quick note to let y’all know that we’ll be having the 2nd meeting of the Triangle microISV Group this Tuesday, February 24th at 7pm at Southpoint Panera.If you’re curious, here’s the agenda:
The second Triangle microISV Group meetup will be on Tuesday, February 24th at 7PM in the Panera at Southpoint Mall.This will be [...]

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