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Kevin has started his first in a series of posts around customizing Dovetail Carrier . Good stuff! I’m looking forward to the rest of his series.
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This is why Reg is one of my new favorite bloggers: bricks software is more complicated than bricks Indeed!
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While working last night, I needed to view a video demo, and I was presented with this message from Windows Media Player: I hadn't done any updates, or installs, so I have no idea why Media Player decided that I needed to log off and back on. Notice that
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37signals warns about four letter words . We've run into this here in our development in the past. "We can just do ..." This tends to result in redesign later on down the road. I'm guilty of it myself at times. Once you acknowledge it, recognizing when
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The New Yorker has a good article on feature creep vs. simplicity . "And marketing and sales departments see each additional feature as a new selling point, and a new way to lure customers. Often, the result is a product like Microsoft Word 2003, which
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I've been working on a web services project for a customer over the last few months. I'm in Austin, the customer is in Atlanta, and the developer on the project is also in Austin (but not in the same physical office as myself). I needed a way to work
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Back when I was working at Clarify, a good chunk of my time was spent doing custom development work, i.e. consulting-ware. We developed the code, and handed it off to the customer. We (the consultants) did some testing, but the customer was responsible
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I banged my head against this for a while today, so I figured a post was in order. I was writing a PowerShell script to re-create a customer scenario today, and I needed to enable debug level logging. I was building the config on the fly, such as this:
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There's a great post on perlmonks focused on the topic of comments in code . It fits with a lot of what we've been practicing here at Dovetail lately. We often talk about the benefits of loose coupling, but I never really thought about the coupling that
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Every morning I get an email report containing all of the Full Text Searches that our customers performed within our SelfService application , along with how many results each search resulted in, and if there were any errors. Our volume is low, so it's
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