Cool Stuff
Thursday, 20 September 2007 04:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
da1) 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.
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.
