Community News:

• The 19th annual Software Industry Conference will be held this year in Dallas, Texas at the Hyatt Regency DFW, July 15-17, 2010. The conference runs each year from Thursday through Saturday. It is designed for both beginners and experienced Micro ISVs and internet marketers. At SIC you can go to sessions on current software and internet marketing topics, take part in web site and marketing tutorials, participate in networking opportunities, attend Exhibit Night, and mingle with your peers at the Gala Networking Dinner. For more information on the SIC visit their web site at: http://sic.org
• Mike Davis, Centripetal Software, has launched Centripetal Retrieve for Basecamp a comprehensive backup solution for 37Signals Basecamp. It provides automated backups of all your Basecamp files, writeboards and data and delivers it to you via Dropbox or FTP. If you’re interested, email Mike first and just mention mention my name, and you’ll get a discount.
• Dennis Gurock, Gurock Software, has released his second product after 18 months of development: TestRail – a web-based test case management tool.
• Will Rayer, ubercode.com, has updated Ubercode (a programming environment for Windows designed to make it easy to build EXE files). The improvements in v1.2 include full support for Windows Vista, updated help and documentation, over 63 tested example programs, CHM and HTML help, and many other tweaks and improvements.

Interesting  Answers.Onstartups.com questions with useful answers:

• Video hosting provider for commercial content – who is the best?
• What’s the best way to assemble a board of advisors/mentors?
• Captcha vs. Email confirmation vs. None
• No 1 “must read” for startup founder. Could you point just one?

News/posts for microISVs and Startups:

• Jason Cohen on Painful, Surreal, and Surprisingly Effective: The Personal Checklist – if you Dare!
• Dharmesh Shah on 9 Quick Tips Learned While Raising $33 Million In Venture Capital
• The good people at Pingdom.com on Internet 2009 in numbers.
  • 90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.
  • 92% – Peak spam levels late in the year.
  • 47 million – Added websites in 2009.
  • 81.8 million – .COM domain names at the end of 2009.
  • 1.73 billion – Internet users worldwide (September 2009).

StartupToDo.com, The Startup Success Podcast and other plugs:

• Four new Guides at StartupToDo.com:
  • Getting Started with Rails if you’re a .NET developer.
  • Continuous Integration – Why Do It?
  • Creating a Business and Marketing Plan for a startup. Part 1: Introduction.
  • Email Productivity for startups.
• Show #55 of the Startup Success Podcast is up:  [bob.walsh@47hats.com with the word digest in the subject.)
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