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Kill those warts!
Rory is one of my favorite bloggers. Earlier this week he posted Die, Hungarian notation... Just...
Author: humbugreality Date: 06/03/2004
Speed Trap
My first experiences with programming were laboriously copying reams of mysterious incantations,...
Author: humbugreality Date: 06/02/2004
Hickory dickory dock, A tester ran out of clock
In pure clock time I work about fifty hours a week. Fourty hour weeks I think are overrated. I...
Author: humbugreality Date: 05/25/2004
OOPs I did it again
I wrote my first programs in various forms of Basic (including SuperSyntax on Prime minis, which...
Author: humbugreality Date: 05/12/2004
Hypocrites That We Are
In Ring One, here, we have The Cowboys. They don't need specs or a test plan, let alone daily builds...
Author: humbugreality Date: 04/14/2004
Screen Door
Gretchen and Zoe and Heather have been blogging about the process Microsoft uses for recruiting and...
Author: humbugreality Date: 04/07/2004
Sacrifice me!
I'm on BVT [Build Verification Test] duty this week -- lucky me (not!). Each week we Sacrifice One...
Author: humbugreality Date: 03/31/2004
This book exists because of me
Illinois Institute of Technology (which made the mistake of giving me an architorture degree I've...
Author: humbugreality Date: 03/17/2004
Scottie, spec me up!
Those of us lucky enough to have a program manager know that while PMs are a big help they certainly...
Author: humbugreality Date: 03/10/2004
When specs go bad
If your team writes specs before starting to code (as opposed to after, when it's easy to do so, and...
Author: humbugreality Date: 03/03/2004
When you don't have a spec, everything is a bug
How many of you regularly get a detailed and complete specification document before Dev starts...
Author: humbugreality Date: 02/25/2004
Adventures in Tabletting
I've had a Motion Computing M1300 for seven months or so now, and I love it to pieces. I love the...
Author: humbugreality Date: 02/18/2004
New kid on the blogk
So I'm the newest Microsoftee alternately enlightening you, scaring you, and boring you to tears...
Author: humbugreality Date: 02/18/2004
The Tester Song
If I had a theme song, this is what it would be:With apologies to Monty Python... [Fade in to a dev...
Author: humbugreality Date: 02/08/2004