Announcing two new articles from GoingWare’s Bag of Programming Tricks,
one in the Business section and the other in “On Becoming a Programmer”.
from Business:
The Valley is a Harsh Mistress
http://www.goingware.com/tips/misery.html
Founding a high-tech company is an incredibly risky proposition - and
your worries are not over when your product ships, when you receive
venture capital or even when you go public; in fact, VC’s and Wall
Street often cause more problems than they solve.
This page discusses the troubles of Working Software, Live
Picture, and embedded operating system vendor Be, Inc. It recommends
a couple of books, one about once-promising startup Go Corporation
and the other a classic on large-scale software engineering.
from On Becoming a Programmer:
Resign with Dignity
http://www.goingware.com/tips/resignation.html
My resignation from now-bankrupt Live Picture Inc, three hours after
receiving the news that it would be moving from a small town in rural
Santa Cruz County to urban Silicon Valley. While I usually advocate
working within your company to work for the better, sometimes one does
not have the power to effect meaningful change, and in such a case a
dignified resignation may be the better choice.
GoingWare’s Bag of Programming Tricks may be found at
http://www.goingware.com/tips/ and also includes:
Study Fundamentals Not Tools, APIs or OSes
Market Yourself - Tips for High-Tech Consultants
Properly Managing Memory Returned by transcode() in the Xerces XML
Library
MacsBug Tips and Tricks
Michael D. Crawford
GoingWare Inc - Expert Software Development and Consulting
http://www.goingware.com
crawford@goingware.com
Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.
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