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Cow Launcher
Over Christmas I decided that I wanted to achieve two goals this year that I have been putting off for a while. I wanted to make a game, and I wanted to get an app on the Apple App Store. So after a month of coding in my free time...
20 February 2014 · More →
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Becoming a Devtrepreneur
Recently a fellow Devtrepreneur contacted me to ask a few questions about my path to becoming a Devtrepreneur. So I decided that I would make my answers public in the form of this blog post so that others might gain a bit of insight into what has worked for me....
24 January 2014 · More →
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2013 Year in Review
I like to take the opportunity at this time of year to look back, take stock and be thankful for what the year has brought. As with last year, this year has had its up’s and down’s but in general has been a good year. Professionally By far my biggest...
31 December 2013 · More →
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Pricing is Hard
Over at Dev7studios we sell WordPress plugins and Web Apps so I’ve had to make decisions on single product pricing as well as SaaS pricing over the years, and none of it has been simple. I think part of the problem with pricing is there is simply so many parametes...
27 November 2013 · More →
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Selling to a Mass Market
One of things I discovered after launching the Nivo Slider WordPress Plugin was that the people who bought the plugin were not the people that I had expected to buy the plugin. I imagined that the kind of people that would buy the plugin would be all of the developer...
28 October 2013 · More →
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PHP Relative Time Function
Nice and simple. Converts a date to a relative time (e.g. “3 weeks ago”). function relative\_time($date, $postfix = ' ago', $fallback = 'F Y') { $diff = time() - strtotime($date); if($diff < 60) return $diff . ' second'. ($diff != 1 ? 's' : '') . $postfix; $diff = round($diff/60);...
11 September 2013 · More →
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OS X Terminal Command to Find All Assets
So here is something which just came in handy. This Terminal command finds and lists all of the assets (JS/CSS/Images) of your “assets” folder in your web project: find assets/\* ( -iname "\*.js" -o -iname "\*.css" -o -iname "\*.jpg" -o -iname "\*.jpeg" -o -iname "\*.png" -o -iname "\*.gif" ) -o...
24 August 2013 · More →
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Bootstrapping a Small Software Business
I’ve been running a small Web Development company for more than two years now. Dev7studios has been successfully profitable from day one. That may sound great, but that is partly because we are such a small scale company. In fact Dev7studios started as more of an outlet for my development...
8 August 2013 · More →
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JavaScript Date.toMysql()
This just came in handy for me. It extends JavaScript’s Date() object and adds a toMysql() function for when you need to convert a JavaScript Date object to a MySQL Datetime format (in UTC). Date.prototype.toMysql = function(){ var date = this; date = date.getUTCFullYear() + '-' + ('00' + (date.getUTCMonth()+1)).slice(-2)...
14 May 2013 · More →
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Devtrepreneur
I always feel a bit guilty calling myself an “entrepreneur”. I mean I do run a successful company which I’ve bootstrapped myself (“successful” here meaning that it is a profitable lifestyle business where I can afford to hire a few extra folks to help spread the load). But I don’t...
27 March 2013 · More →