I was reading QuadsZilla's post about the week he is having on the SEO Black Hat, and have to admit that it sounds like I am going about this whole software development thing the wrong way.

  We were even hanging with Wiesn Playmate Anna Scharl (Miss October for German Playboy) and her sister most of the time we were out; they’re both sweethearts.

  Tonight I’m going to the Opera and tomorrow I’m doing some 3-hour caving expedition. Ahh, the life of a spammer. It’s a tough job, but someone’s gotta do it.

I have been working in this industry for 8 years, working on web sites for reputable companies, making decent money.  I would say that I would be the kind of person that any organization would want to have, but I find that I enjoy working at smaller start-ups, due to lack of waste more then anything, and I need a little more stress then your average person to get things done.

But if I can use my talents to startup some stupid website and just milk money away from Google and the unknown people out there, is there really a downside?  Is it illegal?  I can provide better for my family and not do something illegal.   Why would I not? 

My instinctual answer is that I wouldn't want to do it for the sake of not helping to proliferate crap on the Internet.  But (not that I would really want to) if spending 1 month a quarter coming up with some stupid website and then go spend time with my family and just watch the money come in... why is that not a good option?

I would love to hear from others that have had this same thought, and where they are on why the continue to work at a "real" company versus going out on their own taking advantage of the framework that Ad revenue has presented to us. 

------------------------

If you would like to find out more about Quadzilla, and a little insight into what makes him tick, listen to this interview that he did on Shoemoney's Net Income Show.

(Note: that this is a picture of the Shoemoney guy not Quadzilla)

As posted by my wife on our family blog, we are going to induce labor to expedite the arrival of our second child if he has not come by that point. We are very excited and can't wait to share him with the world!

As customer demands narrow-down, and the value you get from each engagement goes up, smaller, specialized vendors can gain a big advantage.

read more | digg story

I updated my template with a free one that I found online. I had just updated my non-technical family blog template and saw this one while looking through a ton of options.

I like the search box that I had to plumb up and the category listing on the side. Blogger is getting better, but it is still behind some of the other blog services.

It is a nice feeling to have your company show confidence in you by unleashing you to be quoted in a press release. From the eMediaWire:

"Code search is a missing capability in TFS and SharePoint," said Ben McDonald, product manager for the Koders Enterprise Edition. "Koders fills the gap and can help facilitate the transition to TFS from CVS, Visual SourceSafe or other legacy version control systems."

This is actually pretty cool, and Microsoft showed some interest in using our product as a stop gap to their search solution for Team Foundation Server until they get one ready enough for prime time.

I attend the Refresh Jacksonville talks, and admit I really enjoy them. I am by far the unhippest person in the room, as most of the people there are younger, better looking, design types, but I know soon I will have my moment to give a talk and blow their socks off. Until then I will just continue to go, drink beer, and create relationships with other local Jacksonville technologists.

The reason for this post is that I am looking forward to the upcoming talk given by Rhea Drysdale. At the previous Refresh talk on SEO she quite quickly established her expertise on the area, and a few of us ended up huddling up in conversation as the meeting began to wrap up and small groups began to splinter off.

If anyone out there is interested, you should plan to come on out and hear the talk, it is a great group of peeps to know and make sure to BYOB.

Koders.com now offers over 700 million lines of open source code aggregated from public repositories, corporate developer networks, and projects contributed by individual programmers. New additions to Koders.com include code hosted by Apple Computer, Google, Microsoft, Red Hat and Sun Microsystems. These corporate hosts join Apache, BerliOS, Debian, Novell Forge, OpenBSD, RubyForge, SourceForge.net, Tigris and other public code repositories indexed by Koders.com.

read more | digg story

Feel free to buy me this:

Just makes me laugh...

The ability to search your own code base with Koders desktop code search solution... check it out!



read more | digg story