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02/23/2004:
Joel Spolsky talks... Microsoft listens.


Here's an advanced debugging approach from Calvin Hsia.

I don't know... during my first job after college we were trained in the hardcore-cool-iold-schoolic approach of debugging things sans the debugging tools and watch windows. Just plain source code tracing and... cursing.

Of course you've heard already of that now-a-classic 'How Microsoft Lost the API War' blog/essay from Joel Spolsky. Now here's another Joel Spolsky interview from Microsoft-Watch.com.

For free lance programmers like me, reading information that tackles the 'behind the scenes' and/or politics of software company helps in a lot of ways.