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Two new products for software vendors

March 11, 2008

The software improvement advice, techniques and ideas that I post here are taken from our real practice. I try to keep this blog practical and hype free. This post is a rare case (the previous one was about 9 months ago) when I’d like to tell a little about our own products. During the recent [...]

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25 Content Ideas for Your mISV Website

February 18, 2008

How to stuff your software product website with content attractive for search engines? What to write about besides the product features, download and order pages, and contacts? Here is a brief list of ideas to get started. Press release archive Product news Blog FAQ & How-To Knowledge base On-line forum Product live tour or demo [...]

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How to run a beta testing process

February 5, 2008

Recently, we’ve published Dr.Explain v.3.0 beta for open beta testing. This is a major version update and we added a lot of really cool but complicated (for programming, not for users) features. So, we have to run comprehensive tests before releasing this update officially. In this post I’d like to tell briefly how we run [...]

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Implementing Uninstall Feedback with Inno Setup

January 23, 2008

There are problems in your software! Otherwise your “demo installations / orders” ratio must be 100%, is it? If it’s 100% don’t read this post and write your own one about how you achieved this. People are lazy and they will hardly write you by e-mail about problems they have with your program. They likely [...]

Posted in Application, Support, Testing | 3 Comments »

Haven’t you forgotten something in the New Year?

January 2, 2008

Happy New Year to everyone! It’s 2008! Have you updated copyrights?

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