Posts by: cmaughan

A History of Boardz, Part 2

By On September 19, 2011 · 1 Comment

In part 1 I covered the development of Boardz up to shipping the first version.  I’d like to talk a little bit about the resulting reviews, and how these forced a course correction in the development.  I don’t think this course correction was necessarily the right move on my part, but we’ll get [...]

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Windows 8 First Impressions…

By On September 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I’m a fairly neutral guy when it comes to operating systems.  I just use what I need to get the job done.  I’ve recently had more of a bias towards Mac OS, simply because I find it clean and easy to work with. In fact, my advice to friends is usually to go buy a [...]

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A History of Boardz, Part 1

By On September 14, 2011 · 3 Comments

Back in September 2008, while the stock markets were crashing due to the banking fiasco, I started to think more seriously about ways to boost my income, in case things went pear-shaped with my job, or I found myself with some free time to pursue a project on my own.  In hindsight I [...]

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Hello world!

By On September 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Welcome to my new blog.  Hopefully I’ll write something more useful than ‘Hello World’ in the next few days

I’m just figuring out the finer details of WordPress, Amazon EC2 hosting, and various other bits and pieces to get this blog up and running.  I would appear to have a working website, so that’s [...]

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