Consultant’s Corner
asp.netPro magazine recently launched a new column, called Consultant’s Corner. If you’re a software consultant, it’s worth checking out even if you don’t work with ASP.NET. So far topics have included: “Starting Your Business” (Aug 08), and “Managing Client Expectations” (Nov 08). You can get the 3 most recent issues for free (in PDF format) directly from their web...
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Last summer Rhapsody switched to offering DRM-free MP3 downloads from their online store. They also had a promotion to get a $10 credit when you created your account with them. I already had a Rhapsody 25 (free) account with them to stream up to 25 songs a month. I primarily used it to listen to a new album once before I bought it. I was able easily to associate this account to their new...
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On My Own It was a hectic last week of work at AMS Services. I was in a lot of meetings as people tried to “pick my brain” one last time. My last day was Friday (3/14), so now I’m officially on my own. As I mentioned in my original Leaving the Day Job post, we’re parting on good terms. In fact, we just signed a contract for some consulting work for the next few months. ...
Read MoreLeaving the Day Job, Part 3
Jeff Atwood, who writes one of my favorite blogs, Coding Horror (or as we say here in Maine, Coding Horrah) just wrote a post today about leaving his day job to focus on his own company: Choosing Your Own Adventure Jeff writes way, way better than I do (for example, he would never write “way, way better”), but his post describes a lot of the feelings I had about my decision to leave...
Read MoreLeaving the Day Job, Part 2 (Health Benefits)
Wow! I want to thank everyone for their kind words of encouragement. It’s now been a week since I’ve officially made this decision and one of the most frequent questions I’ve been getting is “what are you going to do for health benefits?” Certainly health care benefits are a big concern, at least in the United States, so it’s an important question. For my...
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Products vs. Services. It’s always a dilemma for a software company because they both compete for our precious limited time. Products have the lure of eventually being more profitable, if you can get sales, and are highly scalable. Services have the advantage of bringing money in now, but generally only scale to the amount of time you have to give. Although, I continue to work on...
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