Last week I went down to Osaka to give a presentation to the Design Matters group at the Apple Store. I originally prepared a very geeky software-centric dive into the magic of using statistics to improve your software, but I was informed that the audience wouldn’t be as geeky as I had expected, so with [...]
Today I killed a few hours getting my Rails environment working on my brand new shiny 64 bit Windows Seven laptop. These instructions should also work with Windows Vista. I’m assuming you’re a fairly experienced Rails developer and just ended in dependency purgatory like I did for the last few hours. 1. Grab the MySQL developer [...]
Andrew Warner of Mixergy will be interviewing me at 11 AM Pacific tomorrow, which is something like 14 hours from the timestamp on this post. If it is 11 ~ 12 AM Pacific, you can catch the live interview and participate in a chatroom. I’m told the main theme for the interview will be a [...]
Gabriel Weinberg, the entrepreneur behind the search engine Duck Duck Go interviewed me earlier today for his upcoming book on getting traction. The video, which runs about an hour in length, is available here. I always look for a summary of contents prior to committing myself to a video (since they’re so much longer than reading [...]
CrazyEgg is really one of my favorite secrets of being a metrics junkie, simply because it makes problems look so freaking obvious, when they could be buried if you relied on quantified analysis. For example, there is nothing I can drill into in Google Analytics, A/Bingo, or my homegrown stats tracking which would have told [...]
Some four years ago, I started Bingo Card Creator, a business which sells software to teachers. At the time, my big goal for the future was eventually making perhaps $200 a month, so that I could buy more video games without feeling guilty about it. The business has been successful beyond my wildest expectations and [...]
I’m quitting my day job as of March 31st. Today I was running out to lunch prior to a day packed with various uISV-centered activities and it struck me: crikey, this is really happening. I’m exhilarated and that weird not-scared-not-settled feeling one gets when one has run out the door in a hurry and is [...]
I got inspired by a blog post from Panic, a Mac software company, and created myself a dashboard for the business, currently residing on a photo frame right on my desk. The full writeup is on my main site, including code if you want to use it.
This post is waaaaaaay outside the usual ambit of my blog, as it is at least arguably political and about cultural norms in Silicon Valley. (I’m a sometimes visitor and spiritual resident, but I’ve never lived there.) I’ll be back to software blogging on the weekend if all goes well. There was a bit of a [...]
Long-time readers of this blog know I’m absolutely goo-goo for CrazyEgg, principally because they keep making me money. They’re seriously my favorite $19 to pay every month, even when I don’t actually use them, because some day I know I’ll get the itch again and then bam actionable insights into what my customers are doing. [...]
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