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Microsoft Windows

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Backwards compatibility can kill you

By dlambert ⋅ July 31, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

Image via Wikipedia “Release early, release often.”  This is the Web 2.0 mantra, and it’s also a major guiding principle behind agile development proceses. In product development, conventional wisdom has it that first-to-market- or first-mover advantage is hugely important.  But for software products, this can kill you by painting your product into a corner from [...]

Reboot needed – really??

By dlambert ⋅ March 11, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

Image by Daniel F. Pigatto via Flickr It just happened to me again.  I came into work and was greeted by the cold, grey screen that told me my PC had rebooted.  Windows Update had struck again. I’ve got a PC that hosts my development environment in a VM, so every time this happens, not [...]

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