http://www.davidscottkane.com Starting Up As An ISV - Blending A Love Of Music With A Love Of The Software Business Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:16:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yep.  Despite a dearth of posts here this week I’ve not drowned or otherwise succumbed to anything fatal. Nope.  In fact I’ve been extremely busy.  Which is why this entry will be my shortest ever. :-) Basically I’m converting code in MixAction across to C# in VisualStudio 2008.  It’s nowhere near as ... http://www.davidscottkane.com/2008/11/21/not-drowning-waving/ It’s been a few days since I posted.  Basically I’ve been flat out like a lizard drinking.  A lot of changes going down in this ISV’s world. Last week I blogged about the fact that I’d signed up for Microsoft’s BizSpark program for ISV’s.  It’s been a great experience so far ... http://www.davidscottkane.com/2008/11/13/and-the-code-they-are-a-changing/ I was about to sign up for Microsoft Empower today.  A post on the Business of Software alerted me to an alternative from Microsoft, recently launched, that is a better fit for where I’m taking our Multimedia software company. It’s called BizSpark and it’s utterly brilliant. If you’re not familiar with it ... http://www.davidscottkane.com/2008/11/07/microsoft-bizspark-isv-startup-support-on-steroids-sign-me-up/ There can be a lot of heated talk generated when it comes to the pricing of software.  From FOS advocates stating it should be free (for reasons that range from ethereal and absurd to downright Marxist), to software companies large and small, the media pundits and the consumer. Very few however ... http://www.davidscottkane.com/2008/11/01/the-politics-of-software-pricing-models-fos-fud-and-economic-pragmatism/ I’ve been pretty slack blogging this week, it’s 3:16 am Friday morning here and I’m determined to get some sleep.  But I thought I’d post a few quick words on progress of MixAction. Beta tests are due to start shortly in earnest, final tweaks to the code are being made for ... http://www.davidscottkane.com/2008/10/31/from-a-media-player-to-a-daw/ Some months back I wrote an article about SiteAdvisor was flagging innocent software developer sites as containing “malware” simply because a scummy download engine linked to them. Now Norton (Symantec) are in the game.  Click above Picture to Zoom in… As reported by an anonymous poster (for obvious reasons) on The Business ... http://www.davidscottkane.com/2008/10/25/thought-site-advisor-was-bad-check-out-norton-safe-web/ I’m always raving on here about the value of content on ISV websites.  I’ve also stated it’s helping me to do well very quickly in the SE’s with MixAction. One of the important things of course is the content has to be valid and relevant and not just so much “spam”. Dennis ... http://www.davidscottkane.com/2008/10/25/micro-isv-content-ideas/ With the server move and all domains moved across to it behind me I’m back today coding for the desktop – MixAction in fact. After all the PHP and SQL its’ nice being back inside Delphi’s IDE.  Today was a bit of a hallmark as the final version, barring some work ... http://www.davidscottkane.com/2008/10/24/back-coding-desktop-style/ Well…  If you’ve been reading along here recently you’ll know that I am in the process of switching over to a Virtual Private Server.  Today the last site was moved over (this blog has been running on the new server since late last week).  That last site was the MixAction ... http://www.davidscottkane.com/2008/10/21/new-server-new-website-new-technology/ Not strictly a ISV or mISV subject here, though related to an mISV friend of mine. His grandson, and his fellow Cub Scouts have launched a little e-venture and I find it wonderful to see kids having a go.  In fact my own kids will be taking a crack at it ... http://www.davidscottkane.com/2008/10/20/some-startups-are-under-20-years-of-age/