Mike Slinn / Selected Articles


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I started publishing articles in technical journals in 1984, and have sold about five dozen so far.

Here is a short promotional article I wrote while at Borland.

This article targets Developer Relations departments of software platform vendors.

I wrote this article to help a friend deal with a difficult board that she sat on.

Startups have to keep an open mind as they evolve. In this article, one of the first ASP looks at itself.

I wrote this article because the founders of several companies that I helped get started didn't know much about corporate structure for technology companies.

One day I found myself explaining what marketing is to the founder of a company. They knew how to build electronics, and had a small sales volume, but didn't understand what marketing was. Monopoly: a Metaphor for Industry-Specific Marketing.

Internationalization Articles

I've produced software products in English, French, German and Spanish that run under DOS, Windows, Macintosh and Unix. Here are some tips for internationalizing software products.

Recreational Writing

Most of my articles are technical.  Here's a humorous article for a change of pace.

AutoCAD

In the 80s I was a fairly well-known media personality in the CAD world, and published extensively. Here are a few of my articles from that time.

Technical Reviews

I have been retained as a technical reviewer by O'Reilly and Wrox Press. Here are the books I reviewed for them.