Get Your First Sale!

Nothing beats the joy of your first sale. You can plot, plan, market and dream all you want, but until you get that first sale, you're not sure that you have a real business. It's 25 years since I sold my first book to an international publisher. I walked on air for days. To my mind, because real writers wrote books, I was real writer…

Building a Better Sidebar

When I first heard about .NET's user controls I thought, "What's this? A proprietary format for include files?" I argued with a colleague about this newest offering from Microsoft, dismissing user controls as some sort of hype from Redmond.