Painless Software Management
Copyright 1999-2006 Joel Spolsky.
But the people who want to add information to a thread here on Scripting News, and have been reading the site long enough to know what it's about, they find their way to the comments and add something to the mix.” Both excellent comments.
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When a blog allows comments right below the writer's post, what you get is a bunch of interesting ideas, carefully constructed, followed by a long spew of noise, filth, and anonymous rubbish that nobody... nobody... would say out loud if they had to take ownership of their words.
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Read Learning from Dave Winer (Links)
The annual Fog Creek open house is today (Thursday), so if you're in New York, I'd love to meet you in person and show you around. Show off your new iPhone. Fog Creek Software is at 535 8th Ave., on the 18th Floor.
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We won't have the final list of cities until we can get hotel meeting rooms confirmed in each city, but it looks like the first round will hit about 20 cities in the US and Canada plus a few stops in New Zealand, Australia, and Europe.
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If the software doesn't get done, you fire him and he loses the unvested shares -- it's not necessary to make the vesting contingent specifically on finishing the software (besides, "finishing" software would be too hard to define in a contract).
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Rick Chapman wrote the encyclopedia of software marketing, The Product Marketing Handbook for Software, and the hilarious In Search of Stupidity, which makes the quite convincing argument that success in software is a matter of just not doing stupid things.
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When you're a cordon bleu chef and you need fresh lavender, you grow it yourself instead of buying it in the farmers' market, because sometimes they don't have fresh lavender or they have old lavender which they pass off as fresh.” Not loving your job?
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Then you go on to say that you bought a Dell server, W2K3 and W2K5 SQL Server. Others are running Windows Server 2003. We try very hard to stick to a single hardware architecture so any server can be swapped with any other in case of problems, and parts can be moved hither and yon as needed.
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