Archive for May, 2009

How to kill the golden goose

Posted in Development, Retrospectives on May 14th, 2009 by Shane Gill – 8 Comments

This week we launch NEM-Watch 8.2, an upgrade to our much loved market watching software.  This upgrade was started in early 2008 while I was living in the UK and needed some extra cash to fund my global exploits.  Armed with a laptop and VB6, I began NEM-Watch’s transformation from ugly duckling to swan.  The 15 months that followed would be a roller-coaster ride providing some valuable life lessons and highlighting many of the do’s and don’ts of software development.  It’s hard to make duck-lovers take to a swan. read more »