Painless Software Management
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Our goal is to deliver the highest quality product possible and we simply want to use the time to meet the high bar that you, our customers, expect.” What? Can you understand that? “A feature complete CTP during the Heroes Happen Here launch wave?” What on earth does that mean?
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Things have changed. Some things are still the same: typing URLs is not hard, this is a monumental chicken and egg problem, and this doesn't provide any value to the consumers who are expected to install new software on their phones to go along with this ridonculous scheme.
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How it works: You go to https://www.copilot.com, enter your name, and get an invitation code. You then download and run a tiny piece of software. Tell your friend the invitation code, they go to copilot.com and enter it, and they download a tiny piece of software.
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Instead of setting up a SLA for our customers, we set up a blog where we would document every outage in real time, provide complete post-mortems, ask the five whys, get to the root cause, and tell our customers what we're doing to prevent that problem in the future.
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The best conference I went to last year was the Business of Software Conference, organized by Neil Davidson of Red Gate Software over in Cambridge, England. This year when Neil approached me about co-sponsoring the conference, I thought, why not?
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You might be able to major in Game Development and work on a significant game title, for example, and that's how you spend most of your time, just like a film student spends a lot of time actually making films and the dance students spend most of their time dancing.
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They finally intuited the problem: their voting software runs on top of Windows CE, and if a voter accidentally dragged his finger downward while touching?cast vote? on the screen, Windows CE interpreted this as a?drag and drop? command.
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Inc.com published my list of travel tips from the World Tour. You'll learn how we completely avoided air travel snafus, what equipment we brought along, and more. Not loving your job? Visit the Joel on Software Job Board: Great software jobs, great people.
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The search feature in Microsoft Outlook 2007, frankly, sucks big time. You have to wait for it to fail to find things in your inbox before you're permitted to search elsewhere, even if you know the message isn't in your inbox. Mike Belshe only spent a couple of years at Microsoft before moving on.
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Boy, I would love nothing more than to scrap installable FogBugz and run everything on our servers... we've got racks and racks of nice, well-managed Dell servers with plenty of capacity and our tech support costs for the hosted version are zero.
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