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A good few years ago I started another company to run some local city websites. At one point I had created a few thousand city sites and was making some decent coin from selling ads to local businesses. The idea didn't scale unfortunately - although I could easily sell enough ads to make a good living none of the people that signed up for ...

OurLittleNet's domains are expiring, and today I notice that www.OurRoswell.net is starting to fail when requested. Only the alternative RoswellGA.ourlittle.net domains will continue to work. It's the end of an era. The Our Roswell website went live (on it's own) on September 3rd 2002 after a year or so building it in my spare time. The ...

You heard it here first - Coding Wizard ScottW leaked the news to me tonight that he is secretly writing an app to compete in the race to be the first application to be certified as Web 4.0 compliant. It's certainly going to be a challenge, but with Jason coding again how can we fail? UPDATE: I'm being too subtle. What I'm trying to make ...

Today was my first day as a fulltime employee at Telligent Systems. Yep, I chose the red pill and have joined surely the most coveted organization to be formed in the ASP.NET community. I'll be working as a Program Manager and already have my first project to get my teeth into. This does not alter my commitment to the Dozing Dogs CMS - in ...

V.C. Rick has kindly talked about Dozing Dogs and I before, and every time it is followed by a boost in interest; more questions, more downloads and a few more sales. So, how cool is this, Rick's done it again. (Interestingly, even before I get Rick's feed I had Technorati inform me that a new instance of my name and company name had been ...

CMS sales are doing so well, I decided to invest in a little search engine company. via Steve Rubel

This morning another fraudulent order was trapped by our payment processor RegSoft. They are doing an impressive job of catching the stolen credit cards using a variety of methods. If there is a source code purchase I actually double check the order myself, to make sure the phone number and IP address matches the street address amongst other ...

Rule #1: Never Keep A Customer Waiting Sales are up, up, up this month, but I made a n00b mistake this week. On the day before a new release I told a new customer that he might as well wait until tomorrow before downloading and installing the software. I really do know better, I just forget sometimes. To understand why this is so silly, you ...

I'm so used to replying to emails quickly that I find it personally offensive when others don't do the same. I have a problem with a 3rd party product today and it has totally put the brakes on a minor release that I wanted to get out the door tomorrow. It's not a huge deal in the grand scheme of things, but it's annoying when I'm literally ...

Wow. Interspire have announced that they are discontinuing their ASP.NET product range, citing low revenue as the main cause. Shame. It couldn't be better timing for Dozing Dogs, with 2.2 planned to ship later this month.