Cool Stuff

[da]

1) Joel on Software did a wonderful demo on FogBugz this morning. I'm pleasantly surprised- it looks like a very well-thought-out piece of software. But it's mis-named. Bug-tracking is one of five tasks it tries to do well and in a novel way. The most surprising of these: along with its sophisticated-looking project-management tools, it does scary magic to turn programmers' predictions of task completions into a probability of shipping on a given date, and he even used words like "confidence distributions" and "Monte Carlo simulations" to make it sound legit. Maybe it is legit. I will play with their free demo and report back.

2) On a whim I asked for and received a second LCD monitor today. Because I've been bringing my laptop in to work just to hold the documentation, which finally got annoying. Now my programming IDE and documentation aren't fighting for the same space all the time. Big win. I feel more productive already.

3) Biking from home, downtown to the software demo, and uptown to the office felt very comfortable, even though I intentionally took more trafficked roads than I usually do, just to see how bad midmorning traffic is. Answer: not too scary. Anyhow.

4) Singstar 80's has been obtained by friends. Oh yes.

Comments

[nehrlich.livejournal.com]

Glad you could make the World Tour! If you have any questions about FogBugz or "Evidence-Based Scheduling", drop me a line and I can help you out since I work at Fog Creek. Also, say hi to Dan for me.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Hi!

Yeah- I mentioned you to Stephan, the engineer guy who was On The Tour. Stephan and I had a long chat about NY, the design of FogBugz and wasabi, and what a good company Fog Creek is to work for. :)

Thanks, and yes, I'll certainly say hi to d for you.