{"id":1013,"date":"2007-11-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2007\/11\/18\/951\/"},"modified":"2007-11-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T23:00:00","slug":"951","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2007\/11\/18\/951\/","title":{"rendered":"How to demo software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Spolsky &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/items\/2007\/11\/16.html\" title=\"How to demo software - Joel on Software\">How to demo software<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;As you go along, be sure to accidentally bump into all the nice little \u201cfit and finish\u201d features of your product. Oh look, that column is halfway off screen. No problem. I\u2019ll just drag it over. (\u201cWha!\u201d the audience gasps, \u201cyou dragged a column in HTML?\u201d) Oh, look, this feature is supposed to be done by next Tuesday. I\u2019ll type \u201cnext tuesday\u201d in the due date box. (\u201cOMG!\u201d they squeal. You typed \u201cnext tuesday\u201d and it was replaced with \u201c11\/20\/2007\u201d). Those nice little touches you put so much hard work into are not the meat of the demo, so don\u2019t talk about them, just act nonchalant. What, doesn\u2019t <em>every<\/em> web app let you resize and drag columns?&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Spolsky &#8211; How to demo software: &#8222;As you go along, be sure to accidentally bump into all the nice little \u201cfit and finish\u201d features of your product. Oh look, that column is halfway off screen. No problem. I\u2019ll just drag it over. (\u201cWha!\u201d the audience gasps, \u201cyou dragged a column in HTML?\u201d) Oh, look, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}