The Secret Sauce for Getting Your App Shipped Out The Door!

Being that I work for Microsoft and directly with developers I’m excited to figure out ways we can better serve and empower our beloved developers. However, there is one thing no one can give you that will help you complete all your goals and aspirations – discipline.

My dad installed into me at a young age that anything worth doing is worth doing right. As a child this drove me nuts. “Does every single leaf REALLY need to be vacated from the sidewalk???”

Michel Hyatt, blogger/speaker/author, recently covered discipline on his podcast. It might just be the spark you need to get your app shipped out the door. Give it a listen.

What will you do in 2013 to be more disciplined?

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  • Vance Lee Meurer

    Does every single LEAVE??? LEAF??? … see above

    Welcome to Texas, better yet Irving. I am guessing you work at 161 and MacArthur, congratulations, that is my dream. I made it into the lobby once but like you at E3, I didn’t have the right stuff to be able to stay for more than a couple minutes.

    I love the show, but I’m not crazy about the word METRO. As much as I personally evangelize Microsoft I didn’t know that code word so Windows Phone Dev was a better fit. If you ever meet him, I’d like you to tell Bill the new guy is fine but … JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN CHANGE SOMETHING, DOESN’T MEAN THEY SHOULD. They killed my accelerator keys in Excel and it takes me 3 times longer to do my work with these crazy ribbons. A mouse is great for something’s but a keyboard rules at others. Its okay to add new functionality but don’t take away the things we already know.

    I never listened to a podcast but your show was featured and I started listening to show # 1 a few weeks ago. I am now up to show 64 as I listen to four or five shows a day. I don’t know what I’ll do when I get caught up and have to wait a whole week for more input. Maybe you guys should have more than one show to keep me feed.

    I have no app, not yet, maybe never because I’m a lot better at going to school than I am getting things done … to many things on my bucket list to focus. However I did upgrade to Win 8 Pro so I could install the SDK8 and will start tinkering with the platform this weekend so pray for me.

    So for now I am happy that I have built some cool tools in Excel, Access, Outlook, Word and SharePoint thanks to VBA. Those tools were mostly for audits, report automation and data mining but as much as I’ve done, I haven’t been able to get a job doing this type of work full time so maybe when you are running the Irving office you can hire me to push the button on the big screen across the room (yep I told you I finished show 63).

    So about your question above. What I would like to have is one of those entry level developer camps right there in your building. I’d take a weeks vacation and be there in a minute (MacArthur south of Northgate is just down the street). I only have three apps in mind so far and they are all ambitious, maybe to ambitions for someone who so far has only coded VBA in MS Office.

    Tell your brother awesome job and keep it coming. The only NEGATIVE thing I’ll say is “IF YOU GUYS WANT TO WASTE MY TIME TALKING ABOUT GAMES AGAIN, talk about a real game like … BattleField Bad Company 2 !!! When I get to play my handle is VanceLeeMeurer (29Y30) if you decide you need more dog tags. I did notice the name of show 74, Armed in Texas. You guys joked once about buying a gun, sounded like an AS IF no way to me. So I’ll have to find out next week what that’s all about.

    Let me know about an IRVING developer camp and if that is a no go for now, take the mic away from the big boss, put your arm around him again, and announce the camp here anyway. Maybe he’ll be to embarrassed to say no but if he does maybe we can meet up to do some plinking, my treat. After all I owe you guys.

  • Vance Lee Meurer

    OH DARN. I just finished show 74 and ARMED in Texas is about a game. My kids begged for Angry Birds so that is the only app I paid for. They also loaded Flowerz, Pipes, LogoQuiz, Minesweeper and a few others. I have played them a bit I have to say Red Alert, Wolfenstiein, Doom, DukeNukem, Diablo, Delta Force, Battlefield 2 have all lead me to my all time favorite of Battlefield Bad Company 2. So much so I purchased Battlefield 3 but have barely played it. So the oh darn is your not necessarily armed. So the invitation to Plinking is still out there. Have a good day.

  • ryanlowdermilk

    Thx for the comments! I fixed the error you mentioned above. For the record: Battlefield 2 rocks too!