Simon Strandgaard

26 mar 2009, Simon Strandgaard

My email is simon@opcoders.com, feel free to mail me.

I'm a software developer, focusing on the Machintosh platform. Opcoders is my company. For a long time I have been working with Dennis Hjorth on our hobby project. I have managed to transform this hobby project into a mac application that is much different from the starting point. Currently I am trying to make a business out of it.

For a long time I have put money aside for this project, but they don't last forever. Hopefully I reach break even before running out (This didn't happen). I plan to publish as many details about this company so that everybody can see my expenses, failures, leasons and help me get through the hard time.

I was born 1979 in Copenhagen Denmark, where I still live. My interests are programming, books and movies.

More details on my homepage neoneye.dk.

I also have a blog neoneye.blogspot.com.

And I'm on Twitter too twitter.com/neoneye.

See my Toolbox gallery on flickr.

Feedback

Feedback is important. Imagine driving on a bike. If you hold your hands in front of your eyes, then you cannot see anything and you are likely to crash on your bike. The better view you have, the better are your chances for keeping balance and steering around obstacles.

The same in the real world. The sooner you can demo your computer program, the sooner you can correct fundemental flaws. The sooner your program crash due to assertion failure, the sooner you can figure out what went wrong. The sooner a user can get response from your program, the more experiments can she/he do and the sooner she/he can get an eventual satifying result. The sooner you ask other people to critise your ideas, the sooner you will come up with a great idea. The more attempts you try hitting the goal, the more like you will get a goal. Etc...

This idea about feedback has become an important part of my everyday life.