Archive for May 20th, 2006

Key #1: Create the buzz

This paragraph is kind of obvious… and the one domain that remains mostly out of your control.

Yes, the buzz you’ll generate around your work is the most efficient way of standing out of the crowd. I feel entirely at loss on how to achieve a buzz, even a moderate one. It might require the ‘good’ ideas, at the ‘right’ time, with the ‘hype’ technology… The person who reads this and has some experience is welcome to leave a comment!

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Keys to creating software (and making money…)

Discipline is the key word when it comes to software engineering. Try to write a program unordently and you’ll see only bad results… or most probably no result at all! Another challenge for the software creator is to make money from his or her work. There again, it’ll require another dose of discipline.

After many thoughts and researches I’ve come up with a list of keys that will help me to become a sucessful software creator. Because discipline is the main word here I’ve decided to run that list against all new projects I’ll start in the future. No matter what, unless they turn out to be a mistake. However the more I think about it the more I wish I had followed these steps in the past.

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