Painless Software Management
Copyright 1999-2006 Joel Spolsky.
But Ajax apps can be inconsistent, and have a lot of trouble working together — you can’t really cut and paste objects from one Ajax app to another, for example, so I’m not sure how you get a picture from Gmail to Flickr.
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I did the one thing that drives web design firms completely crazy: I suddenly took a look at the new web design they've done for us, which I've been approving every step of the way, and didn't like it any more, so I told them we had to start over.
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Chicago is a great city for architecture. But when you go to a demo at the Congress Plaza and the rug is stained and there are fluorescent lights everywhere and the bathroom looks like LaGuardia airport, some of that general depressing aura of shabbiness will rub off on the product being presented.
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The three phases have to be scheduled in a very different way. If you have a fixed size test team and infinite bugs, they?ll find bugs at a constant rate, simply because they?re all spending 8 hours a day entering bugs and then stopping, but this flat line doesn?t mean you?re ever going to ship.
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Pilots are only allowed to fly a certain number of hours per calendar month and by the end of the month they're running out of hours, especially on the more awfully-managed airlines like Northwest, so flights galore get cancelled in the last few days of every calendar month.
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“Basically a small company has a flavor to it, whereas a big company is sort of like checking into the Bellagio in Las Vegas. A small company is more like a bed and breakfast. Visit the Joel on Software Job Board : Great software jobs, great people.
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I bought a retail copy of Office 2007 today (I'm loading up the new laptop I got for the world tour, which is a Thinkpad X61s ), and I must be a complete spaz, but I simply could not figure out how to open the bizarre new packaging.
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Read Even the Office 2007 box has a learning curve (Links)
What's the point, exactly, of physically going to 21 different cities to demo FogBugz 6.0 in person? There will be a member of the FogBugz development team with me and we'll also leave plenty of time afterwards for one-on-one questions if you have something to ask us that isn't of general interest.
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Liz and I have been working to get ready for the FogBugz 6.0 World Tour, in which I travel from city to city (accompanied by a programmer) giving demos of all the cool features in the upcoming version. Whenever my squirt nephew decides to have his bar mitzvah, we'll come to Tel Aviv.
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