November 2007 - Posts

• How walkable is your neighborhood?

  This is cool... my friend Mike Mathieu set up a web page where you can enter an address and find out how walkable it is . Microsoft's campus gets a 31 ("For most errands, driving or public transportation is a must."). The Googleplex : 34... Posted Nov 19 2007, 03:54 AM by Joel on Software

• How to demo software

  It’s already all a blur. 26 cities. 6 weeks. 2913 attendees. $160,000. 23 hotels, one Cambridge college, one British library, and a “Sociëteit Het Meisjeshuis.” (“Gesundheit!”) Somewhere, I don’t know where, I’m standing exhausted outside a hotel ballroom... Posted Nov 16 2007, 02:02 AM by Joel on Software

• Live from Dublin

  Chris Lomont has a detailed reverse-engineering of the 2007 Excel floating point bug [PDF] . “The bug seemed to be introduced when the formatting routine was updated from older 16-bit assembly code used in previous versions of Excel...” Stefan... Posted Nov 06 2007, 05:55 AM by Joel on Software

• European FogBugz world tour this week

  Dublin and London are completely full. If you're on the waiting list, do watch for an email, since we usually get some cancellations the night before when we send out a reminder. In Dublin, I'm speaking at the Irish Java Technology Conference... Posted Nov 05 2007, 05:11 AM by Joel on Software

• Random thoughts for November 01, 2007

  I'll be speaking at the Irish Java Technology Conference on November 7th, in Dublin. Stefan has started a series of articles about Wasabi: “During the summer of 2006, we realized that I was a complete dork for naming it FogBasic, so we had a... Posted Nov 01 2007, 05:57 AM by Joel on Software