Hanselminutes Podcast 235 - Making a hobby a job - Talking with Eric Herbrandson about his Silverlight-based MicroISV
Eric Herbrandson has been working on the site creating a Silverlight-based audio mixer at night and weekends. What's the best way to hold down a full time job while pursuing your passion? Was it hard for Eric to learn a new technology and apply it to his little ISV? And some tech chat about his product, AudioOrchard Scratch Audio, what was possible and what wasn't.
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Marc Roussel
I think micro-ISV's make good hobbies too. I guess it's the other way around for me, as in I have an unrelated main job but like to do small 'startups' on the side as learning/life exercises. Here's my latest Silverlight one for anyone interested:
http://www.zoomread.com
It uses past behavior to try to learn what to show, and you get all sorts of cool feeds appearing, like this one from today...
http://www.zoomread.com/ZoomRead.html?map=2010-10-20_12-53&location=13-5
;)
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