Breaking up has always been difficult for me. I tend to fall in love with being in love, and continue a relationship well past the point of futility. And so it is with my oldest love, writing desktop software.

I’m sorry, desktop apps. We just don’t have a future together anymore. Its not you, its me.

A bit of background: for the last three years I’ve sold Bingo Card Creator , a desktop app which pretty much does what it says on the tin. It has gone from being a passing fancy to a rather lucrative hobby to, well, a bit more than that over the years. As I gradually became more invested in the business of writing desktop software, I got more and more snippy about the periodic desktop versus webapp flamewars, and defended the ascendancy of desktop software.

What Changed My Mind

Over roughly the same period my day job has changed and transitioned me from writing thick clients in Swing to big freaking enterprise web apps.…