Oct
25
Joel Spolsky talks… Microsoft listens.
Filed Under (SoftDev (non-VFP), Visual FoxPro) by WildFire on 25-10-2004
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.