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I’m in Boston, sightseeing, before the start of Business of Software 2008. I was on the T – Boston’s subway – travelling between Harvard and South Station, when I noticed an unusual thing. The train was going some 30 miles per hour. I looked outside and saw not dark tunnel walls but a lake and [...]
I’m going to give Twitter a whirl over the next couple of weeks. If anybody’s interested in keeping up to date with what I’m up to (mainly conference planning) then I’m at http://twitter.com/neildavidson
I just got an e-mail from PayPal saying that my PayPal account has been disabled: We have reason to believe that your account was accessed by a third party. We have limited access to sensitive PayPal account features in case your account has been accessed by an unauthorised third party. It smells like a phishing [...]
Here are the table sessions at Business of Software 2008: Difficult customers – war stories RSS feeds – what do you read, and how? Should you outsource customer care? To VC or not to VC Is Apple really that great? Does advertising work? The good, the bad and the ugly of going it alone. Finding, [...]
Today, we announced Red Gate
The final program for Business of Software 2008 is now available. You can download it from the following URL: http://downloads.businessofsoftware.org/BusinessOfSoftware2008.pdf As well as some great speakers (Seth Godin, Joel Spolsky, Dharmesh Shah and many more) what’s exciting me most is the opportunity to discuss the business of software with all the attendees. Here’s how Joel [...]
As part of his European tour last month, Barack Obama met up with Gordon Brown (the British Prime Minister) and David Cameron (the Conservative leader). As is the custom, the two British politicians exchanged gifts with Obama. No elephants or guns changed hands, but the choice of gifts was interesting nonetheless. Gordon Brown gave Barack [...]
Today we’ve got a guest post. Steve Jones is co-founder and editor of SQL Server Central, a web site with over 800,000 subscribers and nearly 3 million page views per month.Whether to advertise or not often seems likes a difficult decision. It isn’t. Here, Steve explains why. I’ve never had to really make a decision [...]
Over on Simple-Talk, Stephen Chambers has written a great article about the process the team used for ANTS Profiler 4 (beta out today): "For a moment, I thought I had walked into the wrong office: All the computers, monitors, keyboards and mice were gone. I surveyed, with some alarm, the empty desks of our entire [...]
Meeting other people is often the best part of a conference. It’s often hard to do though: with several hundred people there, how do you find out who you want to talk to? For BoS 2008, I’m going to try out Crowdvine (thanks for the idea, Jeff). It’s a social networking site specifically designed for [...]