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Our product got better today.
I read every word Eric Sink writes. Why wouldn't I? The guy knows software and he knows how to build a company that makes software. If I weren't already doing something that I love for a company that I love then I might have taken him up on his past offer...
The customer is not always right
Or a better title may be "Sometimes the customer really doesn't know what he/she wants". I was looking through some old project files over the weekend, looking for some code examples. I came across an ecommerce project that Chad and I had finished up...
How to get a bit more technical
Jim Holmes put out a great post recently "Changing Jobs? Evaluate Where You're At (And Fix It!)" . While the post is basically Jim's story of how he got himself up to snuff so he could go out and get the job he wanted it is a great roadmap...
Hot IDE
After reading Ken Robertson's post about adopting Jeff Atwood's fonts and color settings for Visual Studio 2005 and loving it, I figured I would give it a shot, too. Heck, if it's good enough for Ken Robertson then it's good enough for...
A Developing Cliff-hanger
For those of you not into Community Server (shame !!!) and don't follow Jose Lema (but do follow me?) I have a couple of things to say to you: 1. what the heck is wrong with you !?!?! 2. Hi, Mom. 3. Jose is putting together a great series on building...
CC.NET & MSBuild error: "sgen.exe" was not found
I've run into this issue twice now and since I had to look it up again the second time (because I can't remember crap anymore), I thought I would post it here. Task failed because "sgen.exe" was not found, or the .NET Framework SDK v2.0 is not installed...
BaseCamp RSS feed
An interesting sidenote to yesterday's post and image of my RSS list of "things to read": notice the "Tellus" listing. This is our Basecamp feed - so I know about anything that gets posted to any of our projects at any time - without having to go to Basecamp...