Microsoft Office Outlook XP Pro Vista Premium Enterprise Edition Plus

So I moved out of the spreadsheet world in to some real business software, but now I'm feeling like my computer has way too much running all the time. Is the Outlook+Quickbooks combo the only viable option for managing a business? I've looked in to some open source options, and for the most part it all seems underdeveloped. It seems a little ridiculous that if I want to sync contacts across my gmail, iphone, and quickbooks, outlook has to be involved for some reason. And to send out e-mail invoices, quickbooks uses a client-side e-mail client, which again points to Outlook or something similar. Why can't Intuit include a little e-mail relaying part of their software? It all seems kind of ridiculously convoluted to make all these things work together. In the meantime my computer is getting slower and slower dealing with this business software while I'm trying to work. Perhaps manually doing everything in google spreadsheets wasn't so bad after all?

iPhone SDK 2.2.1 released

So the SDK update is finally here! So what's changed? According to diff, NOTHING! Perhaps they accidentally released 2.2 with the 2.2.1 label? Rumor has it, the update is a bug release, but diff shows no changes whatsoever between the two releases in the documentation. Whatever they fixed, they aren't talking about it.

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

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So, this is what I ate today.
Running a business takes a lot of your time.

Welcome to my blog

Ah, the first blog post. It is a strong symbol of potential, but ultimately lacking in any useful or interesting information. However, I am a rebel; so here is a hamster playing an arcade game.



Interesting? Absolutely. Useful? Well, not so much. For those of you who don't know, this is my style of humour and I apologize.

So who am I?
I am the founder of JQ Software. I am an experienced software developer, and I thoroughly enjoy all things IT. All the cool kids have blogs, so I guess I should have one too. I hope to describe to you all my experiences in the modern IT startup world. If you keep up with this blog, once again I apologize, and I hope that we can share the experience of founding a company. As always I'm up for any criticism and suggestions; and of course NEW CLIENTS! My company's website is http://www.jqsoftware.net , pass it on ;)