After long last, the dotProject Manual is for sale! It's taken more time and effort than I care to consider, but I'm finally satisfied with the overall quality, screenshots, and the level to which each topic and module is covered. This manual has been on the drawing board and in outline form for nearly a […]
Every so often, I stop and evaluate where CaseySoftware is going, how our various projects are doing, and what I'm doing personally. Outside of my role within dotProject and our growing dotProject work, I find myself assisting a number of long-term customers in initiating change and creating new policies and practices. In the past, people […]
In late 2003, I came across an ad for a company trying to break into the US markets by offering 3 years of hosting for free. I was tired of home-hosting everything, so started an account, registered a domain name, and evaluated it. To date, their hosting services have been excellent. I eventually registered a […]
Everyone knows that timing is everything. It doesn't matter whether you are talking about a good joke, a business/financial decision, or even just catching a cab. If you time it wrong, the joke falls flat, you lose position or money, or you're late to a meeting. All of these are affectively the same principle: Because […]
Through my normal trolling and mining of news and views, I found heard the gentlemen over at Hacker Voice Radio mention dotProject. They mentioned the complexity of dotProject and then went on to slag off* Microsoft project even worse. Since part of my and CaseySoftware's goal is to take over the world through better project […]
On January 20th, 2005, I took the plunge and went 100% indepedent. I had already been working on side projects since the previous August and had been banking the revenue for a major technology upgrade. I made that purchase and bought my Compaq Presario R3000. I had done some research and was satisfied with my […]
Yesterday I covered one tactic for coming up with ideas. That tactic was based more on getting everything out of your head as opposed to seeking out ideas. If you're not a creative type or are looking for external validation, you may still be struggling… The second method is a bit different and seems to […]
When I began this series, I started with the belief that most of my readers would already have their idea but that it just wouldn't be fleshed out. How wrong I was… What's the best way to come up with an idea? Personally, I think this is the wrong question. Having an idea in itself […]
I was sent a link this morning to a new site offering “next-generation online project management software”. I was excited to see if it was something along the lines of Basecamp, dotProject, NetOffice, MS Project, or a variety of other things systems which I've seen and played with out there. As part of my role […]
Alright, if you've been following along so far, you have started on your product, have spoken with an attorney, gotten some of the paperwork squared away, and might even have a customer or two. Now I'll get into what I consider to be the fun part… How do I name my product? Personally, I believe […]