Some Weekend Reading
Going to be a work filled weekend, but before I whack on a bit of Goa-Psy Trance at Digitally Imported, and settle down to some coding, I thought I’d have a quick browse around the interweb.
First up for you is a great post By Joel Spolsky from Joel on Software, his latest post following on from his FogBugz world tour: How to demo software
A good read, some nice pictures of Cambridge and London and a great bit of advice: story telling.
The only interesting way to design a demo is to make it a story. You have a protagonist, and the protagonist has a problem, and they use the software, and they… almost solve the problem, but not quite, and then everybody is in suspense, while you tell them some boring stuff that doesn’t fit anywhere else, but they’re still listening raptly because they’re waiting to hear the resolution to the suspenseful story, and then (ah!) you solve the protagonists last problem, and all is well. There is a reason people have been sitting around telling stories around campfires for the last million years or so: people like stories.
The world seems to be going OpenSocial mad at the minute, so need to look into it further, found some sites which I still need to browse
Some Micros ISV blog posts to read when I get a chance.
- Scrum for One from Chris of My Micro ISV Journey
- A checklist for your microISV site from Bob Walsh of 47Hats
I like these guys and avid fan of their blogs. If you are a one man band and develop software I strongly recommend reading their blogs.
Also, found a nice little post from Nick at the BreezeTree Software
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