How To Distribute Java External Jar Files
You can save a lot of time and effort by using java code that others have already written. Such code is usually available as external jar files. But how do you distribute that code with your program? Check the License Agreement Before you decide to use code that someone that else wrote, check the license …
What’s The Easiest Way to Quickly Resize Photos?
This week I got many photos ready for a web page photo album. I needed every photo scaled to the width of the web page, and scaled again, very small, to be used as a thumbnail. This could have taken hours using a photo editor. Instead, it took minutes using one of my favorite free …
Web Graphics: JPEG, GIF , or PNG?
There are a great variety of image formats available. Choosing the right format for Web graphics is simplified by the fact that browsers support only three image formats: JPEG, GIF, and PNG. Which format should you use on your website? That depends on the type of image you have and what you want to use …
Free Web Space
The first step in creating a Web site is to acquire some Web space. Before locking into a paid Web hosting service, or a free service that puts ads on your site, check into the Web space that you might already have. Most ISPs give their customers free Web space as part of their Internet …
What are Cookies and Tracking Cookies?
Cookies are harmless little bits of information left on your computer by a Web page. Those little bits of information may be used to simplify or personalize your next visit to that page or Web site. Unfortunately, these bits of information can be used as tracking cookies. So how harmless are they really? First of …
Is Symantec’s File Insight (SONAR) Deleting Your Programs?
Symantec’s File Insight (SONAR) program was recently added to the Norton Antivirus and Norton Internet Security programs. SONAR automatically deletes or quarantines any program it believes may be malware. This is a problem for you as a software developer if it decides your program looks like malware. Symantec provides instructions for how to prevent your …
Welcome to This Little Program Went to Market
Hi, I would like to welcome you to my blog. What will you find in my blog? Well, I hope to share with you many tips and techniques that I use to get my own programs to market. Many of those tips will apply equally as well for selling and marketing any product on the …
Step-by-Step Tutorial
Many of the tips, techniques, and tools discussed in this blog are demonstrated in a detailed step-by-step tutorial in the book, This Little Program Went to Market, by Annette Godtland.
The book takes a computer program through the entire process of creating, deploying and distributing a program, then selling and marketing it (or any other product) on the Internet. Read more.
Programs at Market
Take a look at some of the programs I've created at Godtland Software Corporation. I created, deployed, distributed, sold, and marketed these programs using the techniques mentioned in this blog and detailed in the book. Read more.