Robert on Software Development

Changes

Back in March, I was promoted to Chief Technology Officer. This was a pretty big deal for me, as you can probably imagine, and it greatly expanded the scope of my responsibilities. That’s partly why I’ve not been spending enough time writing for this blog. I’m actually proud of my posts here. I think they have real value, but to be honest, they’re not as focused as I’d like them to be.

So, I think I will narrow the scope of this blog to my experiences as CTO of a software company. This will include development, of course, and maybe even some code. But I also want to share nuggets of wisdom I come across, stories of success and failure, and frustrations as well.

We ship our product on June 7. It’s my first commercial software project. Everything I’ve done previous to this has been in the enterprise, relatively safe in the confines of a large corporation where the users were my coworkers and didn’t spend their own personal money on the stuff I created. This is something entirely different.

I do hope you’ll return regularly, or add me to your RSS reader. I will treat you to stories about cloud computing, rich client applications, raising capital, dealing with constant change, and pig farming.