Painless Software Management
Copyright 1999-2006 Joel Spolsky.
Right now, we?re log shipping twice a day, so you might lose a day of work if an entire city blew up, but in a couple of weeks, we?ll implement a system that does more continuous backups, and we expect that the warm backups will never get more than 15 minutes behind.
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“The point of this wiki is to bring under one roof as much high quality, useful, quality information as possible about the business of software, whether it's microISVs selling desktop software, Web 2.0 sites or even the big enterprise kind of outfits.”
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He's the Doogie Howser, MD of software startups, except for the fact that he probably has no idea who Doogie Howser is, given that the show went off the air when he was 4 years old, and, frankly, at age 4 he was probably too busy working on his second IPO to watch much television.
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The demo will probably take about 30 - 45 minutes, and I'll leave lots of time for questions -- not just questions about FogBugz, but anything about the software development process, really. I'll collate the responses and figure out some good places to stop on the FogBugz World Tour of 2007.
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This goes for anything from silverware (people pick out the patterns that match the silverware they had growing up) to typefaces to graphic design: unless people are trained to know what to look for, they're going to pick the one that is most familiar.
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It's probably worth it to you to pay for the trip if you're going to go to a bunch of interviews. Worst case scenario, you don't spend very much money on the trip, you almost certainly get a job, and you probably even have your choice of employers.
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