Thoughts about software from yet another person who invented the Internet
Copyright 2001-2005 Eric Sink All Rights Reserved
All of the people arguing that C is important are the people who have already learned it. I'm pretty sure that a lot of their argument is resting on the same foundation as those crotchety old hams: "If I had to learn C, then everybody else should too."
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Read C and Morse Code (Links)
I think it's out of print, but I really liked Writing Solid Code. It's very oriented toward C/C++, so if you're mostly in C#/Java/Ruby/Python/Perl/VB, it may not be worth your time. Still, it's an outstanding book. But actually you should read at least a dozen books on marketing.
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Read My Favorite Books (Links)
Do I really believe that working on a fun personal project at work is such a heinous crime? Certainly not. But surely you can agree that goofing off and trying to cover it up isn't exactly the way to win the employee of the month award?
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Read Yesterday's entry: A comment and a correction (Links)
And that was just the beginning. The project started out with me alone, but two years later it was a team of 50 with me in a leadership role. We were the first Internet IPO. We licensed our browser to Microsoft and it became Internet Explorer.
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Read Choose Your Manager (Links)
And BTW, none of us will be dressed as The Evil Mastermind. This should be obvious, as The Evil Mastermind would never do something actually cool like a song by The Who. Rather, he would do something like a Kelly Clarkson song and mistakenly believe it was cool. :-)
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Read Upcoming Gigs (Links)
Read Three Personal Highlights (Links)
But none of this means that I'm going to give my blanket agreement to every decision Microsoft makes. In this case, I object to Microsoft's plan, not because Vista is so awful, but rather, because ignoring customers is so wrong.
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Read Windows XP and the importance of listening to customers (Links)
Sally: Hey Marty. We're trying to track down some information. Somebody changed the DB schema during the 7.0 dev cycle to allow multiple companies to be associated with each person. Were you the one who requested that feature?
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Read What is ALM? Traceability (Links)
Today I remind myself that there are no do-overs, and I'm not sure I would want one anyway. For every mistake I have made, there were negative consequences and positive lessons. I can't expect to avoid the former and keep the latter. They come together as an inseparable package.
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Read Life Calculus (Links)
We like to use trade shows as a public debut of new products. Last week we shipped "dot one" releases of Vault and Fortress. SD West will be our first opportunity to talk with customers in person about these new versions. Come see us in booth 308 next week and we'll show you.
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Read SourceGear at SD West next week (Links)
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