Archive for August, 2007
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Editor or IDE?
The first season of Saturday Night Live had a great skit featuring Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd , and Chevy Chase arguing about new Shimmer(i): Gilda: “New Shimmer is a floor wax.” Dan: “No, new Shimmer is a dessert topping.” Gilda: “It’s a floor wax!” Dan: “It’s a desert topping!” Gilda: “It’s a floor wax, I’m [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Code Editors,SlickEdit Products by Scott Westfall
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
The Perfect Estimate
We’re doing the planning for SlickEdit 2008 now, so I have estimates on my mind. Most programmers would prefer to avoid estimates altogether. They prefer the “we’ll let you know when it’s done” approach to scheduling. Providing estimates and making schedules are the biggest differences between software as a business and software as a hobby. [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Dev Management,Programming by Scott Westfall
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
It Takes a Community of Programmers…
When I got my first computer, a TI-99/4A, I learned to program it by reading Compute! magazine and typing in the sample programs line by line. At first, I had no idea what I was doing, but by the third or fourth program, I had picked up enough that I felt inspired to go to [...]
