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April 27, 2006

Outlook add-in in C#

Here's a couple links to get started on an Outlook plugin for Google Calendar.

Hello Word Outlook Add-In using C#

Google Calendar Data API

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April 18, 2006

Best jobs in America

Kyle should be very happy. Software engineer and college professor are #1 and #2.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/top50/index.html

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April 17, 2006

Icons

A bunch of icon resources.

http://blinduser.blogspot.com/2006/04/free-icons_15.html

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Installing Prereqs

Here's something to help with install requirements.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2a5e4ebc-651c-40aa-9525-1810af47c317&displaylang=en

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Something worth copying

When I tell people I write software, other than a blank stare, one of the most common questions people ask is if I worry about getting copied by Microsoft. Paul Graham has a good answer.

Startups should worry more about making something worth copying and less about whether someone will.
http://paulgraham.infogami.com/blog/copy

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April 08, 2006

Business of Software

From Joel Spolsky's intro to Eric Sink's book.

One day, you’ll turn off the feature that emails you every time someone buys your software. That’s a huge milestone.
We wrote exactly that feature into our payment system, but I've yet to turn it off. Maybe someday...

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April 06, 2006

Contracts

It might be good if DelMar IT contracts covered some of these issues. Just storing this here for later.

http://blogs.caseysoftware.com/?q=node/209

via The Daily Grind

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