Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Joel Spolsky – The new Fog Creek office: „Private offices with doors that close prevent programmers from interruptions allowing them to concentrate on code without being forced to stop and listen to every interesting conversation in the room. […] Long, straight desks include a motorized height-adjustable work surface for maximal ergonomics and comfort, and so…

Tim Bray – AD VII: Nine Programmer’s Notes: „At a deep level, debugging with print statements is superior to all other approaches. Which is good, because we seem to be stuck with it.“

Joel Spolsky – Another resume tip: „To a startup founder, middle managers just seem like added expense without more code getting written, and the only thing we REALLY need is code to be written, and customers to be called on the telephone.“