Analyzing the Pomodoro Method
In earlier posts I summarized the Pomodoro Method for time management. Since than, I have to admit, I wasn’ t able to persist in using it on a daily basis. However, I did find it to be very useful...
View ArticlePosting Regularly
As you have seen, I’m way better than before in posting regularly on this blog. I’m still doing the same things, so there is not more to write about. However, I do follow a new system for posting....
View ArticleReviewing Quora.com
Last week I was introduced to quora.com . It’s a smart Q&A on almost everything. The crowd is currently very tech oriented, thus so are the questions. The most notable difference to existing...
View ArticleFreemium and Bootstrapping
These last few years the Freemium business model has gotten lot of attention and examples. Basically it’s to offer free accounts to your service with an option to upgrade to a paid pro account. Key is...
View ArticlePower of Quora: Pick Your Own Crowd
In my initial review of quora.com, I wondered how it was going to cope with the masses. The current value of quora is largely in the crowd that is on there. There are top-level founders, CTO’s, etc...
View ArticleIdea Overload
You’ve got so many ideas in your head that you just don’t know where to get started. As a result, you start procrastinating on stuff you do feel passionate about. At the same time, you’ve got enough...
View ArticleCompetition Anxiety
If you start a new product/website/service it’s wise to know your competitors. Find out what they offer at what price and quality. There is nothing wrong with that. However, it’s easy to fall in a...
View ArticleReview: Pivotal Tracker
For Observu implementation we are using Pivotal Tracker to keep track of features and progress. I’ve posted a full review on our Observu Blog. To summarize: the idea of having a single ordered list of...
View ArticleStartup/Product Blog Inspiration
It has been common practice for years now for startups to blog about their new product and its development. It’s one of the key methods to keep your future customers informed. However, as soon as you...
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Obsessed about monitoring
For the past two years, I’ve been working on one of our products: Observu, a site and server monitoring platform. The last year we’ve applied it to our existing sites and customers and now we feel...
View ArticleFix your PayPal PHP IPN script
In October 2013 PayPal changed a bit of their server infrastructure. They announced it well, with multiple warnings about requiring the Host: header to be sent with verification requests. Now suddenly...
View ArticleWhy developers should do customer support
As a developer, I don’t particularly enjoy customer support. Questions are either about things that are obvious (or should have been) or about things that I don’t have a clue about either and need a...
View ArticleGetting Yourself Unstuck When Programming
Everyone who has ever coded anything significant (and probably everyone who has ever done anything that requires creativity) will recognise the problem of getting stuck. Most of the time it is caused...
View ArticleTesting User Sessions with Flask Elegantly
There is excellent information available on testing Flask e.g. http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.12/testing/ One thing I ran into was the need to set up a user session for most of my test cases. The...
View Article10 common Adwords mistakes by business owners
A few months ago I decided to get back into experimenting in Adwords advertising for both my day job and Observu website monitoring. I quickly learned that Adwords is very good at letting you pay for...
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