Conspiracy theory: Joel posted his Language Wars and Wasabi posts on September 1, 2006. He announced the new Joel on Software Jobs Board on September 5, 2006. Hmm… Joel knew that his Language Wars and Wasabi posts would get a lot of attention, and perhaps some of that attention would last long enough to get [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2006
Smart Bear Software: Lightweight Code Review presentation
Posted by svec on September 6, 2006
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A couple weeks ago I saw a great talk by Jason Cohen, founder and CEO of Smart Bear Software about lightweight code review (pdf of slides). A quick summary of Jason’s talk: Up-front code review saves time and money by finding bugs earlier (backed up this claim with real world data). Smart Bear has a [...]
Cringely goes to the blogs
Posted by svec on September 2, 2006
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Robert X. Cringely, tech pundit extraordinaire, said he’s going to change his weeklyish column into a blog. I’m hoping that means we’ll get to see more frequent content from him. I really enjoy his insight into the tech world – he’s usually thinking things no one else is (or at least he’s the only one [...]
Herding Cats at Google
Posted by svec on September 1, 2006
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From an Information Week article about Google: “Lots of small, short-lived projects mean traditional project management software based on task lists isn’t right for Google. For one thing, techies aren’t very good at cataloging how they spend their hours. What they are good at, it turns out, is writing up a few short sentences or [...]
Svec on Joel on Software on Language Wars
Posted by svec on September 1, 2006
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I was hoping to cash in on the popularity of Joel’s post, but then I noticed that everyone and their computer-illiterate grandmother who doesn’t have electricity has already commented on it, so I’ll just throw in some links: Joel’s original post Fun thread #1 from the Joel on Software discussion group Fun thread #2 from [...]
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