September 2007 - Posts
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By now you've probably seen a lot of the brouhaha over a bug in the newest version of Excel, 2007. Basically, multiplying 77.1*850, which should give you 65,535, was actually displaying 100,000. Before I try to explain this, I should disclose that...
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“I didn't relish the carpal tunnel syndrome that would result from signing all these forms. We tried to 'sign' them by running the forms through the laser printer again to print the signature in the right place. But, as I learned, something...
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I’ve been getting a little bit behind on my world tour trip reports, but things have been going so smoothly thanks to Liz’s heroic organization efforts that there’s not much to report! Princeton was our smallest group so far—just 19 people, but the hotel...
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IBM just released an open-source office suite called IBM Lotus Symphony . Sounds like Yet Another StarOffice distribution. But I suspect they’re probably trying to wipe out the memory of the original Lotus Symphony, which had been hyped as the Second...
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Back home in New York. We had about 75-100 people come to the New York demo yesterday, along with an army of Fog Creek technical staff in matching sky blue kiwi polo shirts. When I got back to my desk on Monday afternoon, I turned into the prototypical...
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Occasionally I think about organizing my own conference, but I would just invite people like Eric Sink and Rick Chapman, anyway, so the Business of Software 2007 conference has eliminated the need to do that. Not loving your job? Visit the Joel on Software...
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Chicago; about 70 local software developers turned out. Chicago is a great city for architecture. Much better than New York. Here they build skyscrapers just because they love them. Can I talk about hotels for a minute? There are about a million different...
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About 200 attendees came in Seattle; this will be one of our biggest scheduled demos except, maybe, London. I apologize that the screen wasn’t so easy to read throughout the room. We made a point of asking the hotel before we booked the room if the screen...
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Vancouver, BC: Day one of the FogBugz World Tour . About 120 people showed up to see the first public demo of FogBugz 6.0, which will officially launch next Monday. Vancouver is, without a doubt, one of North America's most beautiful cities. Sparkling...
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