Here at Fog Creek Software we get a lot of requests for a tour of the office, which we usually have to decline: we have this unusual obsession with giving programmers quiet working conditions.
A long time ago, it became fashionable, even recommended, to disable menu items when they could not be used.
Don't do this. Users see the disabled menu item that they want to click on, and are left entirely without a clue of what they are supposed to do to get the menu item to work.
Yes! I'm still doing those weekly podcasts with Jeff. We've already done eight of them.
“We lost some time because a deal to expand at our current location fell through -- it turned out that the extra floor we wanted wasn’t actually, to use the real estate jargon, ‘available.’”
It was seven years ago today when everybody was getting excited about Microsoft's bombastic announcement of Hailstorm, promising that "Hailstorm makes the technology in your life work together on your behalf and under your control."
What is stackoverflow.com?
Nothing, yet.
But here's the concept:
Programmers seem to have stopped reading books. The market for books on programming topics is miniscule compared to the number of working programmers.
Registration is now open for Business of Software 2008 (the first ever Joel on Software conference). Neil has lined up great speakers:
