Podcasts as marketing vehicles (1)

Journal entry March 10, 2008

Apple, please make it easier for us to consume Steve… Why is there not a single podcast I can subscribe to, so the HD versions of the most recent Apple keynote, iPhone SDK announcement, or any other reality-distortion-field-spreading event automagically…

Business, Technology, Usability , 1 comments

Krak wants money for links (0)

Journal entry January 23, 2007

“So you want to link to our free, advertisting supported website? Sure, that’ll be 4500 DKK + VAT (around 979 USD)” This might sound absurd to you, but it’s the reality this blogger (in danish) faced when he linked to…

Blogging, Business , 0 comments

Online payments are still a mess (0)

Journal entry January 16, 2007

This is a followup to my previous rant about the state of accepting online subscriptions. A few things happened after my post. Most importantly the client met with a focus group of potential users, and - among other things -…

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Accepting online subscriptions is a mess (6)

Journal entry December 7, 2006

Payment gateways, merchant accounts, transaction fees, statements, grraaaah, it’s driving me bonkers. Here’s the deal: I have a client wanting to sell subscriptions for his web application. Nothing fancy, everyone’s doing it. It should be easy finding a payment gateway…

Business, Programming, Projects, Technology , 6 comments

What’s going on around here (0)

Journal entry October 3, 2006

It’s been pretty quiet around these parts lately - if you ignore the posts about Copenhagen.rb meetings at least. That’s primarily because I am having tons of fun at work, which for some reason doesn’t leave me much time for…

BiQ on Rails, Blogging, Business, Copenhagen.rb, Life, Mentalized.net, Projects , 0 comments

The first small steps (3)

Journal entry July 25, 2006

I am now well over a week into putting BiQ on Rails, and I’ve been having so much fun. The fact that I actually getting paid for writing code that’s pretty and well tested means so much to the enjoyment…

BiQ on Rails, Business, Programming, Projects , 3 comments

One day with Scott Raymond (2)

Journal entry May 14, 2006

Thursday marked a major step on the path to exploring Rails as an alternative for BiQ. As I’ve mentioned earlier I’ve been looking for someone to come and present Rails for us. We found Scott Raymond of Blinksale and IconBuffet…

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Pricing projects (0)

Journal entry April 27, 2006

In Pricing a Project Brian Fling talks in great detail about how Blue Flavor prices their projects (duh). It’s a great article, and I find their process strikingly similar to what I do in Substance Lab. At a recent project,…

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MacZOT! offering SubEthaEdit for (sort of) free (0)

Journal entry April 25, 2006

I’ve been eyeballing MacZOT! before. Basically they offer you handpicked Mac software for greatly reduced prices, and I learned about them when they offered a “MysteryZOT” - you buy a package of software, but you don’t know what you get….

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So much for OCR (0)

Journal entry March 24, 2006

Heh, even when filling out the provided PDF on a computer and printing it, the OCR at SKAT (Danish IRS) manages to misread stuff. Substance Lab turns into Sunstance Lab….

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The woes of online vacation booking (0)

Journal entry March 21, 2006

Rejsefeber. I might have praised your website last year, but this year you blew it. Remembering our pleasant experience from last year we actually went to your site first when trying to book our vacation for the summer. And we…

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Looking for a Rails champion (2)

Journal entry March 16, 2006

At the day job I’m the sole developer and maintainer of a legacy ASP/VBScript system. Yes, ASP/VBScript. No, not .NET. And yes, it’s driving me insane. The code contains around 42000 lines of VBSCript drivel and 30000 lines of supporting…

BiQ on Rails, Business, Programming, Projects, Technology , 2 comments

Generic numeric names (5)

Journal entry February 7, 2006

I know coming up with names is terribly hard - especially if you want a domain name that goes with it. But c’mon, the numbers thing was cute when only a few had it, now it’s just overdone. The old…

Business , 5 comments