Sandy Wilbourn's Weblog

Mon, 29 Dec 2003 23:53:22 GMT

Another test

Mon, 29 Dec 2003 22:53:23 GMT

This is just a test to see if this still works

Tue, 15 Oct 2002 05:28:27 GMT

This is so incredibly cynical in so many different ways. The person responsible should be fired. One, MS didn't go to the trouble of finding somebody to vouch for XP. It doesn't mean that the person doesn't exist, but they could not have even tried to find such a person. Two, it's such a copy of the current Mac ads (which I guess have real people). At least, they removed it from their site.

Wed, 09 Oct 2002 04:34:21 GMT

Joel talks about the ins and outs of the install that he has written for FogBUGZ. It's hugely important to spend the time writing a good installation for your product (even if you end up using WISE), and it is one of those things that many software shops leave until the last part of the product development cycle. That's exactly wrong. As soon as your software becomes good enough to use internally, you need to have an install program for it. You need the feedback on this critical part of your first impression, and you will certainly have to tune it for usability.

Thu, 05 Sep 2002 16:58:29 GMT

Charles Ferguson on the problems with broadband. "The antitrust division of the Justice Department employs more than three hundred attorneys and about fifty economists, but not a single technologist."

Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:54:34 GMT

A brief response to Larry Lessig's story about releasing the source code of MORE. [Scripting News]

This is another take on looking at the problems of releasing all of the source for something that happened ten years ago. It deals with the fact that the authors are no longer associated with each other in the same entity.