Archive for February 2006
Quality is not a feature
For the past several weekends, I have been entrenched in the truly terrible task of stripping wallpaper and getting the walls ready for painting. I’m probably about as far from being a violent person as you can be without actually being a pacifist, but were Jean-Michel Papillon still alive today, I’d probably beat him to…
Read MoreAnother “Milestone” completed
Well, Moon River Milestones v1.1.0 is out the door, and it’s time to turn our attentions towards a pair of other pressing matters. First, is the conversion of our website from the older and more venerable ASP code to C#.NET. “Why the change? Isn’t it good enough as is?” Well, not quite. Part of the…
Read MoreMilestones v1.1.0 will be released this weekend
It’s always nice to finish up something you’ve worked very hard on. This weekend will mark the completion of Moon River Milestones v1.1.0. A small milestone for Moon River, but a new milestone nonetheless. Testing revealed some rather embarrassing bugs, to be sure. For example, I recently added anchor links for the text descriptions of…
Read MoreMilestones v1.1.0 complete
Well, it’s done and testing is underway. So far, I’ve only found a couple of issues and they’re pretty minor. No sense in wasting time talking about them though. The time would be better spent on fixing them. I expect that the new version will be ready for all of our customers and live in…
Read MoreThe Gatekeeper
It’s fairly obvious that whenever you work on a development team, everyone fills different roles. This can sometimes make it difficult to evaluate the individual contributions of particular team members, especially when their roles overlap to a large degree. These roles vary from team to team, as do specific titles but most are essentially the…
Read MoreThe calm after the storm
It’s not really all that calm to be honest, but it’s certainly not the fire and brimstone of yesterday when nobody knew what to think, false rumors were getting started, and obscene emails were coming in. Perhaps one of my goals for the year should have been “Try not to get noticed until after version…
Read MoreJoel on Software readers up in arms – A view from the other side of the fence
Interesting… very interesting. So, after a long day (9 hours plus 30 minute lunch) of consulting, I come home to do my nightly routine. Check my email, check my traffic, do some programming till am, go to bed… whoa, wait a second… that’s odd. Traffic spike. Not just one site either. Where’s it from though?…
Read MoreThe end of Milestones v1.1 is in sight!
There’s only five issues left to deal with in order to get Milestones v1.1 functionally complete. After that comes final testing, and making sure that the installer works properly for both upgrades and new installations. Each of them appears to be no more than a few hours worth of work, but since we deal in…
Read MoreStrategy Letter #1: How to Grow Fast
Tom Hanks played a little boy in the movie ‘Big’ who simply wished to be big and woke up the next morning bigger than he had imagined. Of course, that was only a movie and no matter what the storybooks say, you can’t grow big overnight whether it’s you personally or your business… or can you?…
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