Spring Cleaning

Whenever I see something online that I think I should mention on my blog, I save the link, and I write a little note of it somewhere. The theory behind it is that I always have something to write about, but this backlog of ideas has become too distracting, and links can quickly become old news.

To tie up this loose end, I've gone through my notes, picked out the good, relevant ones, and I'm going to ditch the rest. Along with this, I've refreshed my blog roll. A special mention has to go to Planet MicroISV, a great new site which aggregates all things MicroISV; I'm grateful for my inclusion.

So, apologies if you've seen any of these links before, but I think they're all worth posting in case anyone missed them:-

• This Inc Magazine article, Start With Nothing, is an absolute must read for anyone thinking of starting an ISV.
• An awesome design resource, I really want to spend some time thoroughly reading the Mandership articles.
• Maybe the talk of massive startup costs mean it has little relevance to us MicroISVs, but this Forbes article about starting up in the games industry, Ordinary Hero, is a good read.
• It's swimming with promotions and sponsor links, but when I was looking for help with a web problem I found SitePoint, and was blown away by the amount of useful tutorials on there.
• The Stanford Educators Corner has some great videos of business tips from the likes of Google's Larry Page.
• Stephane Grenier is a regular over on the JoS forums, and in July he wrote a very thorough article about his website re-design. A great read for anyone trying to get the best out of their product site.

That's it, I feel better already.