The Entrepreneur’s Dilemma: Build the product or sell the product

I just happen to be watching that reality show about running a New York restaurant called Rocco’s and an interesting point came out. Someone asked “How do you manage your time?” and the reply was “You have to know when to draw the line between actually building the product and selling it “. This struck ...

Migration from JRoller to MT

I have, in the past hour, decided to make the switch from using a remotely hosted Roller instance (from the good guys at JRoller.com) to a locally installled instance of MovableType. I’ve been wanting to try out MT for sometime and finally decided to take the plunge. I probably won’t bother to migrate my previous ...

The firebird extension I’ve been looking for…. Bookmarks Synchronizer

I’ve contemplated writing some software to handle bookmark synchronization in Mozilla Firebird (between computers). I’ve been side-tracked lately with rea l work, but I came across this. It’s a bookmark synchronizer that uses FTP t o export your firebird bookmarks into xbel and ship them to an ftp site of your choice. You can then ...

Extending Ximian Evolution to support blogging

I’ve been thinking about this sometime and figured I’d throw the idea out and see who else is on the same wavelength. Problem: Email and blogging (reading) is a significant part of my profession life. I’m a software developer by trade, specifically in the areas of Java/J2EE mixed with biotech, and reading various blogs helps ...