Being a frequent reader of Joel Spolsky, that was quite an amusing anecdote.
I like Joel. I don't always agree with what he says, but generally he's insightful and thought-provoking for a devhead like me. And he writes well, too.
I used to be more into what Joel said until we actually were looking for incident management software and demo'd FogBugz. It's really, really not very good. And they seem desparate... After the live demo account I was quite certain they weren't for us and told them so, and they just... kept... emailing... It was kinda sad.
Hmm...I don't think I have any blog-worthy stories about designing the calculation features in InfoPath. Though, through the design process our mantra was mostly WWXD?* I didn't know about the Jan/Feb 1900 problem in Excel -- I think this means that Excel and InfoPath will disagree about calculations around those dates. Oops.
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Actually, now that I think about it -- if I remember correctly -- InfoPath uses the OS date calculation functions. So if we don't match Excel, it's Windows' fault.
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Date: 2006-06-16 01:01 pm (UTC)I like Joel. I don't always agree with what he says, but generally he's insightful and thought-provoking for a devhead like me. And he writes well, too.
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Date: 2006-06-16 01:23 pm (UTC)*snicker*
Yeah, it's a good point. Like I said, he's thought-provoking.
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Date: 2006-06-17 02:42 pm (UTC)[...]
Actually, now that I think about it -- if I remember correctly -- InfoPath uses the OS date calculation functions. So if we don't match Excel, it's Windows' fault.
*What would Excel do?