Author: Don Fitzsimmons

  • 2 Unique Coding Resources

    The internet has really opened up opportunities for self-teaching. Many great web developers have never so much as set foot into a college IT course (myself included) but instead, out of interest or necessity, learned to sling HTML, PHP, or whatever else, on their own. Big thick tech books used to be my first step…

  • Peaks and Valleys

    I should really be working on my startup right now. But, I’m not. I’ve been in a valley for the last few days. Other days it’s peaks. Today it’s a valley. That’s how it goes when you’re bootstrapping a product on your own. I suppose that’s how it goes when you have funding, co-founders and…

  • Microsoft BizSpark

    Microsoft has introduced a new program for early stage startups called BizSpark. The goal of the program is to help get broke starups the tools they need to develop and deploy their software. There are a few requirements to enroll in the program: Your startup has to be younger than 3 years old, make less…

  • An Introduction

    Hello Brainfuel faithful. My name is Don Fitzsimmons. I am a Tornado Alumni (class of ’04) and there was a time long ago when I posted here occasionally. Well, I’m back. For those of you who don’t know me, I’m a software developer (.Net, C#, PHP) and an entrepreneur. I am in the process of…