Boy oh boy...
Here I am writing SQL the whole day and wonder why nothing works. (For those of you who wonder what SQL is, you really do not want to know) It turns out, nothing works because my fingers leave out relevant information while scripting away. If you are missing chars in an SQL query, it is no wonder the table is not found.
*sigh*
Dienstag, 20. Januar 2009
Sonntag, 18. Januar 2009
In memoriam Eric Chatonet
I just learned that our collegue, competitor and internet friend Eric Chatonet passed away last wednesday. This is really sad news. I had the chance to meet Eric in real live on Malta in 2006. A true fun guy to hang around with. I will remember smoking way too many cigarettes with him, while discussing all things related to the Development tool, we both worked with. But he wasn´t only a very humourous person, but also a very bright programmer. He gave so much to our developer community. My thoughts are with his son and family.
We will miss Eric!
We will miss Eric!
It´s been a while
Hi,
it has been a while since I last posted here. That was due to the downside of being an independent developer. No one is doing the paperwork for you. Well, in our case that is not necessariely true, as we have outsourced our book keeping. It just makes more sense to let somebody do the work who knows what they are doing :)
Still, we need to collect every piece of paper somebody gave us and pass it along to the bookworms. However, we only need to do this every 3 months, so that is risky business. If you take your average computer geek, s/he will not be very good at such things. Money is a necessary evil. All you will want to do is write cool stuff. Even though we are very organized in our work and usually are pretty good at math, we do not like the number crunching that is necessary to make a living. Period. That´s what we have to learn and seriously, it is not a work one must enjoy. Really not. If someone is asking you to write a program for you, the truely independed developer will always rate the coolness factor higher than the monetary compensation. We still nedd to eat and do support our families though, so do not expect us to work for free. However, while working with new people you always learn new things (thank you Carsten. I love the whiteboard :) )
This year we must get the numbers right! Not that there would be a reason to complain about the last three years. We did get some nice apps out of the door and had the pleasure to work with quite some nice people on very interesting projects. This year we are growing though. In the times of the economical breakdown, this is extraordiary news. I will try to keep you up to date with what is happening over here.
Until next time!
Malte
it has been a while since I last posted here. That was due to the downside of being an independent developer. No one is doing the paperwork for you. Well, in our case that is not necessariely true, as we have outsourced our book keeping. It just makes more sense to let somebody do the work who knows what they are doing :)
Still, we need to collect every piece of paper somebody gave us and pass it along to the bookworms. However, we only need to do this every 3 months, so that is risky business. If you take your average computer geek, s/he will not be very good at such things. Money is a necessary evil. All you will want to do is write cool stuff. Even though we are very organized in our work and usually are pretty good at math, we do not like the number crunching that is necessary to make a living. Period. That´s what we have to learn and seriously, it is not a work one must enjoy. Really not. If someone is asking you to write a program for you, the truely independed developer will always rate the coolness factor higher than the monetary compensation. We still nedd to eat and do support our families though, so do not expect us to work for free. However, while working with new people you always learn new things (thank you Carsten. I love the whiteboard :) )
This year we must get the numbers right! Not that there would be a reason to complain about the last three years. We did get some nice apps out of the door and had the pleasure to work with quite some nice people on very interesting projects. This year we are growing though. In the times of the economical breakdown, this is extraordiary news. I will try to keep you up to date with what is happening over here.
Until next time!
Malte
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