I’ve been writing software for over a decade now and I think I’ve established a minimal, yet very effective, set of rules for writing software:
Amit’s rules for writing software
Make the users happy.
Allow for known future modifications.
Doesn’t seem like much, does it? But, much like code, the brevity of these rules says nothing about what they [...]
Ah, a moment of pride. A day after posting Dindy’s slow sales progress on my previous post 13 new users bought it in just 2 days, increasing sales by almost 50%. At first I thought it was because I posted an update to the market but then I realized that, again, someone gave Dindy a [...]
I haven’t made any further attempts to market Dindy and the sales have dropped a little bit – there’s a new user every 3-4 days. Google’s publisher statistics tell me that 29 people have downloaded Dindy and there are 18 active installs, which account for 62% of the downloads. From what I read this is [...]
I have some Google Wave invitations. Comment on this post if you want one. I will use the email you posted your comment with as the invitation address.
Dindy was released a month ago and now it’s time to review statistics, look back at my feeble “marketing” efforts and figure out how to continue. So far 17 people downloaded Dindy. Out of these 17:
3 people used the option to uninstall Dindy for a full refund (they’re allowed to do so during the 24 [...]
Happy day today – the release of Dindy 1.0.0, my first mobile application ever, for the Android platform. I won’t repeat the specifics of what it does here because there’s a page for Dindy on this very site where you can read about it.
Dindy costs UK£ 0.75 (don’t ask why it’s in British Pounds. Really… [...]
Over the past few weeks I’ve been programming for fun. I haven’t done this in a very long time and I’m very happy to find a worthy purpose for my free time. I started implementing my call-again-if-urgent cellphone mode, called Dindy now (DND… Dindy… get it? oh well) on the Android platform provided by Google.
Google [...]
I’m shamelessly stealing from Joel Spolsky now:
If you’ve ever heard Seth [Godin] speak, you’ve had your mind blown. Which is why, on the rare occasion, when he runs a one-day seminar, he charges $1650 to attend, and it sells out in seconds.
A while ago I said I was going to blog more personally, but this [...]
If you have a USB cable model KQ-U8A and serial number WT048000317 and you’re looking for a Windows driver for it, here it is.
You’re welcome.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This is the driver I got with my cable. Use at your own risk. Don’t trust me – check for viruses before installing!
This happened to me before but I didn’t have time to mess with it. Now I have time, so here we go:
When installing Pidgin over an existing installation in Windows, Pidgin silently uninstalls itself and installs again. The result is that the Guifications plugin, a very popular plugin that pops up notification windows on the [...]