I was just talked into and/or talked my friends into purchasing Magicka. That reminded me I had posted Part 1 of “How the Gold Master was Delayed” and I should look for Part 2. It’s nice to see a humorous look at a very stressful time for both the developer and the client.
Holiday Cheer
Saturday Morning Productions has saved up its hard earned pennies from the proceeds of mini-compressor for its first ever Staff Christmas Party! We love parties! Well, this party will be pretty quiet since there are only 2 staff members .
In the past, we’ve worked at all sorts of firms and participated in their Christmas parties. Once, during the dot-com boom, we were both flown to Cleveland to celebrate Christmas with other employees and their spouses. We’ve also been invited snowmobiling and dinner and at the boss’s house. A more rukus one featured a fight between 2 staff members in the parking lot of a rather upscale hotel. That one was especially funny because the company had hired a band to play at the party. The band consisted of members from a local media station. The local media was ready in the parking lot to report on the brawl. Fun times.
[Read More]Kids Thinking Outside the Box - Who to Invite to Your Birthday?
My 5 year old daughter is endlessly planning her birthday parties, even 11 months and 30 days in advance. Her recent planning session focused on who she should invite. After going over her list of friends she paused and then asked us “can I invite Santa Clause to my birthday?”
Coming... Later
A realistic video about software development:
Exclusive How the Gold Master Was Delayed: Part I
If, like me, you typically work on business software for a single large client, aside from (shameless plug) Mini-Compressor, then make the following substitutions:
Publisher –> Large Company Buying Custom Software
Gold Master –> Release Date Promised to Customer Picked by Throwing Darts at a Calendar
Forum Troll –> Employee at Customer Company Trying to Fail Project for his/her Political Reasons
SaturdayMP to-do list
- Laundry
- Payroll
- Payroll
- Create Secret Project
- Laundry
- Enjoy summer
- Laundry
- Test Secret Project
- Payroll
- Update News/blog re: Secret Project
- Start Super-secret project
- Oil change
- Laundry
- Payroll
- Finish Super-secret project
- Change Furnace Filter
- Laundry
- Yearend Tax stuff
- Enjoy first snow fall
- More payroll
- More laundry
- Start Really super secret project
The basement-based fun never ends…