Why Game Dev Story is a great game?

Yesterday around 9 p.m., after a really long day, I got from the app store on my iPad “Game Dev Story”. I’m no Sims player, actually, not a great computer game player at all, but I found a tweet that made me curious about this game, because it seemed similar to a game I’ve been … Read more

Mapping ideas to software

We are trying to give more an more “mappings” of problems and ideas to the software applications and services we are creating. Two recent examples:   Matteo Bicocchi’s (“pupunzi”) mappping of neeeds of site improvements to Patapage: 9 ways to improve your site but you don’t know how to       My mapping of … Read more

Back from Better Software 2010: impressions and what I learned

At http://www.bettersoftware.it/ I have learned something real which can help me working – and shipping. I got inspiration for new ideas. Here I give some quick impressions and links. The organizers: a word of praise to the organizers, Develer (http://develer.com). I lived the event as speaker, student and (satirical) “journalist”. In all three roles, I … Read more

Developers in Europe web site is online

The “Developers in Europe” site is online here: http://devineu.eu This is a site where European startups can learn from other startups and innovating software houses. Read the mission here: http://devineu.eu/mission.page You can even interview yourself here. We used also Patapage for the site development. P.S. Among the gadgets, there is the Seth Godin – inspired … Read more

Some books helpful for product development and marketing

In the last three years it has frequently happened that by reading a book and getting in depth knowledge about some of the diverse activities needed in software product development and marketing, we found out that we were doing something wrong, or were about to. Sometimes simple changes in policy have quickly lead to direct … Read more

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