Updated Software Blogroll

I've recently added a few names to my Blogroll, and I just wanted to mention the people of those blogs and how they relate to what's going on here.

If you're reading this blog, you've more than likely heard of Joel Spolsky and Eric Sink. They are a couple of big-time ISV bloggers. Both of them have provided very good articles about software management, and out of appreciation I've got them linked here.

The remaining are

• Ian Landsman (UserScape - Help Desk Software)
• Dimitris Giannitsaros (MagnaCRM - CRM Software)
• Cubicle Coder (Requirements Gathering Software)
• Maxim Porges (CF and Java Development)

Ian's blog and articles really inspired me to get my butt in gear and start blogging. This guy is starting his own software company, is 1 of (i think) 2 developers, and posts more blog entries than most of the other people on this little planet of ours.

Dimitris and Cubicle Code have been regulars over here (leaving comments and what-not), and we've basically been following each-other's microISV story. It's interesting to follow along with other people who are striving for the same thing you are.

I work with Maxim Porges. He is one of the people who set me on the "right" path in terms of learning proper programming techniques (Steve McConnell, Martin Fowler, Alan Shalloway, Bruce Tate and Rod Johnson all had a hand in it too. ;) ). I come from a Management Information Systems education, so my schooling was not in the ways of good programming and OO. :)