I'm a Brisbane-based software developer, and founder of Octopus Deploy, a DevOps software company. This is my personal blog where I write about my journey with Octopus and software development.
Octopus
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.At the start of the year I wrote about how 2014 would be my year to focus on
Business of Software
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.Providing good customer support is the most important part of running a software business. When dealing with a
Octopus
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.Our team at Octopus has grown a lot this year, and we're going to be even
Software Engineering
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.In Octopus, we use RavenDB as our database [https://octopus.com/blog/how-we-use-ravendb] for almost everything. Over time,
Software Engineering
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.We use RavenDB in Octopus, and one of the features Raven promotes is the idea of Safe by
Projects
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.We use Tender [http://tenderapp.com] for most of the Octopus Deploy support [http://help.octopusdeploy.com]. I
Business of Software
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.There are many dimensions to a business: * Product * Support * Marketing * Sales * Operations * Partners * Vision At any given time,
Software Industry
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.StartupAUS published a report highlighting some of the issues that startup founders in Australia face. It's
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.In April 2006 I received a Microsoft MVP award [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Most_Valuable_Professional]
Business of Software
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.This post is part of a little series I've been writing about selling software. In this
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.I'm a developer by trade, and I've never had any interest in marketing. In
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.12 months ago I blogged about how I'd left LinkedIn [https://paulstovell.com/blog/cost-of-social-networks]. At