{"id":5,"date":"2008-01-24T16:13:48","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T22:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdsoft.biz\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/the-windows-mobile-developer-comminity-little-secret\/"},"modified":"2008-01-26T19:43:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T01:43:10","slug":"the-windows-mobile-developer-comminity-little-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdsoft.biz\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/the-windows-mobile-developer-comminity-little-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"The Windows Mobile developer community little secret.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I dont want to scare anyone off by being so open that there is only one guy at Birdsoft and he is wearing many hats&#8230; Dont think your support or product quality will suffer from this&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>The truth is a lot of the companies, even ones that are percieved as &#8216;big&#8217;?in our rather small Windows Mobile software industry, are actually basically just one guy. Yes, a few of them have grown beyond that but less than you&#8217;d think. And some do lean on &#8220;volunteers&#8221; to do things like moderate forums and cover basic support questions( and believe me I love it when it happens with my users and my support), and some do do some code outsourcing which?give them the perception of being &#8216;bigger&#8217;, but mainly its the one or maybe two guys.<\/p>\n<p>?And if they are beyond 4 or 5 then usually they have other income coming in from &#8220;consulting&#8221; type things, which I have too(Birdsoft has done work for some big companies including Kodak and &#8230;). And I?know a lot of well connected people including both of my brothers(which are both in Software Development) that I can go to if something comes up and so it hasnt been all me all the time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And unfortunately in watching some of these companies, their support seems to suffer as the companies do grow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I know it not a real shocker. But I have this feeling that a lot of the companies try to use smoke and mirrors to make you think they are bigger than they are for some sort of trust factor. We aren&#8217;t, so you&#8217;ll get personal Service!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I dont want to scare anyone off by being so open that there is only one guy at Birdsoft and he is wearing many hats&#8230; Dont think your support or product quality will suffer from this&#8230;? The truth is a lot of the companies, even ones that are percieved as &#8216;big&#8217;?in our rather small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdsoft.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdsoft.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdsoft.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdsoft.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdsoft.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/birdsoft.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdsoft.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdsoft.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdsoft.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}