The Travelling Programmer

14 May 2008

Today I did a little bit of contract work, tinkered with comfypage.com and deployed a new version of ComfyPage.  Nothing major in the new release.  Just a bunch of minor improvements and fixes.

This seems to be a large part of what running a software company is all about.  Every day making small incremental improvements to the product and your marketing.  Every day inching forward.  Its a big contrast to the vision most people have in their head.  TV, movies and even interviews with famous company founders tend to create this idea that companies are born in an explosive burst of action.  There is one defining moment then everything else flows naturally.

In my experience thats not how it goes.  Every day there's an opportunity to haul your sorry ass forward another inch.  Or worse, to not move forward at all.

edit: this talk of software and inches sounded familiar so I had a look around to see if I should attributing anyone.   Turns out Joel Spolsky said more or less the same thing in a much longer but vastly more lyrical way.  article.

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