Archive for September, 2007
Monday, September 24th, 2007
As a computer scientist and software developer, I have been conditioned to live in fear, or at least gross distaste, of legacy. That is to say, legacy code, legacy systems, legacy process/procedures, etc. As a self-proclaimed cowboy rock star egotastic developer, anytime I see code that wasn't written by myself ...
Posted in Boring | 3 Comments »
Friday, September 21st, 2007
Prior to Paint.NET v2.6, I was releasing at a pace that covered several months. 2.0 to 2.1 was about 5 months, and forward to 2.5 was another 6 months. V2.6 was done in 3 months, and 3.0 took about 11 months. However, between 2.6 and 3.0 I release 2.61, 2.62, ...
Posted in Tips | 6 Comments »
Monday, September 3rd, 2007
One thing that John Chow has given advice on is selling ads directly. I've been thinking about this a bit the last few days and I think it may be time for me to try it out. I certainly have the traffic for it! The getpaint.net website gets over 1 ...
Posted in Boring, Money | 12 Comments »
Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Now that I'm caught up on stats after having published them for June and July, and now that it's September, it's time to publish stats for August.
Overall usage is up a surprising 15% over July, and 25% since May. Vista usage is still growing strongly, and is up another ...
Posted in Stats | 3 Comments »
Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Sometimes I get bug reports and, since no one else has ever reported them and they seem weird ("they" referring to the crash, not the user!), I write them off as a fluke, a one-time random occurrence, or what you might call "bit rot". However, when you start to get ...
Posted in Bugs | No Comments »