Test post from BlogMailr

November 7, 2006

Telligent: BlogMailr: The guys at Telligent just released a cool new app that allows you to publish to your blog via email. The concept started as a feature in their Community Server platform.

BlogMailr is all about making publishing to your blog easy. There is nothing to download, nothing to install, it?s free for personal use, and works with all popular blogging software.

The sign up was incredibly simple and it worked with WordPress without a problem. I like their site and it looks like they’ve put a ton of thought into making the site very easy to use. However, I’m not quite sure that I agree with their basic premise:

Publishing to your blog is more difficult than it needs to be. Most blogs either have really confusing publishing tools with too many options or you are forced to download and install software on your computer.

While it is probably more of a marketing spin and includes a little bit of hyperbole, I don’t think that publishing needs to be any easier than it already is. I use WordPress and the admin interface is pretty simple and easy to work with. The advanced options are tucked away quite nicely and are there if I need them. And of course, since I am using WordPress, there is nothing for me to download and install.

While this might be a convenient tool for people who rely on BlackBerry or other type of email PDA, I think for most people it really isn’t necessary. There is a still a lot of stuff that I need to do in my admin console (approve posts, delete Akismet splogs, etc.) so I probably won’t be using it much.

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Nine software development motivation factors

November 3, 2006

Rob Walling: Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money: Rob has a good write up with a list of that he calls Rob’s Criteria for Keeping Your Developers Happy. It’s a pretty good list and I agree with most of them.

  1. Being Set Up to Succeed
  2. Having Excellent Management
  3. Learning New Things
  4. Exercising Creativity and Solving the Right Kind of Problems
  5. Having a Voice
  6. Being Recognized for Hard Work
  7. Building Something that Matters
  8. Building Software without an Act of Congress
  9. Having Few Legacy Constraints

I like the fact that he asks for people to post their scores (reminds me of the Joel Test) and I’m tempted to post a score for my current day job. However, that goes against my policy about writing about my day job (good or bad), so I won’t post anything other than I agree with a lot and wish that more managers were aware of what makes a developer tick.

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