'Tin whiskers' imperil electronics - Yahoo! News

'Tin whiskers' imperil electronics - Yahoo! News: "Now some electronics makers worry the destruction will be more widespread, and the dollar amounts more draining, as the European Union and governments around the world enact laws to eliminate the best-known defense — lead — from electronic devices."

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Joel Spolsky on Why the Facebook Platform is the Future of the Web

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Joel Spolsky on Why the Facebook Platform is the Future of the Web: "I suspect that Joel is right about NewSDK, he’s just wrong about which form it will take. “Social operating system” does have a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? "

FogBugz

FogBugz: "FogBugz is a tightly integrated system including: A wiki, where you write technical and functional specifications and technical documents A project management system, tracking all your scheduled work, including bugs and new feature development Our award-winning bug tracking system, integrated with all major source control systems, Visual Studio, and Eclipse. Evidence-based scheduling, a sophisticated system to stay on schedule and determine the probability of shipping for any given date Email and discussion groups, for communicating with customersFogBugz is a tightly integrated system including: A wiki, where you write technical and functional specifications and technical documents A project management system, tracking all your scheduled work, including bugs and new feature development Our award-winning bug tracking system, integrated with all major source control systems, Visual Studio, and Eclipse. Evidence-based scheduling, a sophisticated system to stay on schedule and determine the probability of shipping for any given date Email and discussion groups, for communicating with customers"

Joel on Software

Joel on Software: "Ah, well. We'll start over. It's better to have something we're both proud off than to try and salvage the work done so far. Sometimes you have to go all the way through the design process before you realize that you've built the wrong thing, but it's ok, it's a learning experience, it's not the end of the world to take a deep breath and go back to step 1."

Joel on Software

Joel on Software: "What’s going to happen? The winners are going to do what worked at Bell Labs in 1978: build a programming language, like C, that’s portable and efficient. It should compile down to “native” code (native code being JavaScript and DOMs) with different backends for different target platforms, where the compiler writers obsess about performance so you don’t have to. It’ll have all the same performance as native JavaScript with full access to the DOM in a consistent fashion, and it’ll compile down to IE native and Firefox native portably and automatically. And, yes, it’ll go into your CSS and muck around with it in some frightening but provably-correct way so you never have to think about CSS incompatibilities ever again. Ever. Oh joyous day that will be."