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Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds)
via Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky on February 19, 2008
Last week, Microsoft published the binary file formats for Office. These formats appear to be almost completely insane. The Excel 97-2003 file format is a 349 page PDF file. But wait, that’s not all there is to it! This document includes the following interesting comment: Each Excel workbook is stored in a compound file. You see, Excel 97-2003 files are OLE compound documents, which are,...
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TripIt is awesome
via Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky on January 31, 2008
You know what I really like? TripIt.com. It's amazingly simple. You take all those travel confirmation emails that you get from your travel agent, hotels, car rental agencies, etc, and you just forward them to plans@tripit.com. That's all you have to do. You don't have to sign up for an account. You don't have to log on. You just forward those emails. You can do it right now.You...
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Martian Headsets
via Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky on March 17, 2008
You’re about to see the mother of all flamewars on internet groups where web developers hang out. It’ll make the Battle of Stalingrad look like that time your sister-in-law stormed out of afternoon tea at your grandmother’s and wrapped the Mustang around a tree. This upcoming battle will be presided over by Dean Hachamovitch, the Microsoft veteran currently running the team that’s going...
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Five whys
via Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky on January 22, 2008
At 3:30 in the morning of January 10th, 2008, a shrill chirping woke up our system administrator, Michael Gorsuch, asleep at home in Brooklyn. It was a text messag
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Architecture astronauts take over
via Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky on May 01, 2008
... on the net, on Microsoft's cloud, and you would log onto everything with Windows Passport and all your stuff would be up there. It turns out: nobody needed this place for all their stuff. And nobody trusted Microsoft with all their stuff. And Hailstorm went away.I tried to coin a term for the kind of people who invented Hailstorm: architecture astronauts. "That's one sure tip-off to t...
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Microsoft can't speak straight any more
via Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky on January 30, 2008
Here's how Microsoft says, “SQL Server 2008 will be late:”“We want to provide clarification on the roadmap for SQL Server 2008. Over the coming months, customers and partners can look forward to significant product milestones for SQL Server. Microsoft is excited to deliver a feature complete CTP during the Heroes Happen Here launch wave and a release candidate (RC) in Q2 calendar year...
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Pressed uniforms, mid-winter tans, and morale
via Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky on February 28, 2008
March's Inc. column is online: “Don't tell your star salespeople to take the bus and stay with relatives when they make that call in St. Louis, even though that's what you did when you started the company.”Not loving your job? Visit the Joel on Software Job Board: Great software jobs, great people.
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Voting machine bugs
via Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky on January 05, 2008
Clive Thompson, writing in The New York Times: “In 2005, the state of California co
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Undergraduate programming
via Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky on January 08, 2008
From CrossTalk, The Journal of Defense Software Engineering: “It is our view that Computer Science (CS) education is n
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stackoverflow.com
via Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky on April 17, 2008
What is stackoverflow.com?Nothing, yet.But here's the concept:Programmers seem to have stopped reading books. The market for books on programming topics is miniscule compared to the number of working programmers.Instead, they happily program away, using trial-and-error. When they can't figure something out, they type a question into Google.And sometimes, the first result looks like...
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