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I’ve been in what my BFF calls “maniac mode.”You know the feeling — when your brain won’t stop solving, the ideas keep stacking, and you’re sprinting between code, product, and business decisions like it’s all one giant puzzle. Lately, I’ve been: • Tuning a legal tech platform that calculates complex legal deadlines• Thinking through client…
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How Eliminating Database-Baked Logging Led to Lighter Code, Easier Testing, and a Reusable Component For too long, I wrestled with a common architectural headache: logging baked directly into stored procedures. It’s a pattern many of us fall into, seemingly convenient at first glance. But, as my application grew, this convenience quickly turned into a quagmire of…
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When I set out to build my first SaaS product, I thought the hardest part would be writing clean code. I figured the technical decisions would carry the most weight — choose the right stack, organize the database, write good tests, ship features. I had no idea I was about to get a crash course…
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By Paul A. Jones Jr., for PaulJonesSoftware.com When most people think about investing, they imagine stocks or property portfolios. But as a developer building SaaS (Software as a Service) applications, I’ve come to realize something striking: a well-built SaaS product is a digital income property. In fact, it behaves so much like real estate that…
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In legal applications, “deleting” data is rarely as simple as it sounds. Records often represent more than rows in a database — they carry evidentiary weight, compliance implications, or even the history of a professional judgment. For software engineers building systems that serve lawyers, firms, or institutions subject to regulation, soft deletes are not just…
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When I first started working on my software platform, I imagined the core of the system as a single, elegant calculator. The logic seemed simple enough: take a few inputs, apply some business rules, return a result. But as I dug deeper into the real-world rules I needed to model, I quickly realized something: I’m…
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This article explores how developers can leverage Software as a Service (SaaS) to turn their technical skills into recurring revenue. It covers what SaaS is, why it’s a powerful business model, and how even solo developers can build scalable applications that generate long-term income.
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