We’re changing our blog hosting on Atalasoft.com, so new posts will now be here where your reading this post.  If you want to read my old posts, go to Lou Franco’s Legacy Atalasoft Blog. Here are some of my favorites over the years, covering the four topics I write about most.

Software Business

• Predicting Microsoft’s next move
• 25 ways to make content more findable
• Google can’t make mobile web apps as good as native, so can anyone?
• Making an SDK better at its job
• Usefulness as a pretense for data collection
• Movie Reviews from a software business perspective
  • Star Trek
  • Twilight: Eclipse
  • Inception
  • Twilight: Breaking Dawn

Tech job seeking

• Prepare for Interviews
• Advice for interviewing at Atalasoft
• You don’t need permission to get software development experience
• Portfolio based interviewing for developers
• You need more than a resumé

Technical

• This post will help you debug memory munging bugs on Windows.
• Here’s some technical advice on storing images in Databases
  • Part I
  • Part II
  • Some follow up years later
  • More follow up
• Here’s some code for generating Code 39 Barcodes in JavaScript
• Here’s .NET code for converting Word to PDF (by scripting Word to do it)
• Learn 80’s style programming today

Presenting

• If you want to know how to mess up a technical presentation, look no further.
• I did a lightning talk at Business of Software in 2008, here’s advice if you have to give one
  • Some background
  • Part I of my tips
  • Part II of my tips
  • My presentation on SlideShare