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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Building to Schedule vs. Building to Features
Fog Creek released a new version of FogBugz this week with something called Evidence Based Scheduling. It feeds project tasks and developer characteristics, along with historical data, into a Monte Carlo simulation then builds a probability distribution for project completion. … Continue reading
Posted in The Business of Software, microISV
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PopBox beats Lightbox
When I loaded up new screenshots a few weeks back, I decided to replace Lightbox 2 with John Reid’s PopBox. The more I see Lightbox, the more I find it annoying. It just seems slow. And no matter how many … Continue reading
Posted in General, internet, software
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How to Stop IE6 Caching Downloads
Update: The method described below will cause IE7 to drop the extension. Until recently, I had no idea that IE6 cached downloads. I knew page and image caching were issues, but I didn’t know if affected exe’s and zip’s as … Continue reading
Posted in The Business of Software, microISV, software
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How I Finally Got AdWords Tracking To Work
Until this past week, I’ve never been able to tell whether AdWords was paying for itself or not. Somewhere between my ads and the payment processors, my tracking lost its way. It all hinged on a) the tracking working through … Continue reading
Posted in Google, The Business of Software, marketing, microISV
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An Unofficial Announcement
FlowBreeze 2.0 was released a week ago. Very quietly. No formal announcemnent was made on the site. No press release was sent out. No current users were notified. I admit, it’s kind of a strange way of launching a major … Continue reading
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FlowBreeze 2.0 Help Online
In lieu of a full preview of FlowBreeze 2.0, I have posted the help file online. A firm release date has not been set, but an October launch is most likely. The full list of new features and improvements will … Continue reading
Posted in Flowcharts, Product News
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