I've been reading a few blog postings and forum pages about how people are finding it difficult to install Trac and Subversion on Windows. Well having moved over to a new Job at a New Company, I was tasked with installing it on one of their machines. Well I didn't want to look an idiot and install it straight on a machine and make it come tumbling down, having been a while since I installed it.
What is your normal response to these types of questions? I bet it's stop what your doing, find this information give it to the person asking and then take another 30-60 minutes trying to get back in the zone or you just bite their head off as you have only just got into the zone.
Well what it should be is "It's on the wiki". What you don't have a wiki????? If your using SVN and Trac then you do :)
If the response back is I've checked and it's not there, one of three things just happened:
Yeah Yeah, you document it all and its in nicely formatted documents on a share drive, remember we are developers and we want everything now, and those documents are just "Write Only"
So today I finished reading Joel on Software.
But I've decided that I've covered enough of the book for people to get a taste. As you could properly tell from my past postings this book is really worth the money.
The final few parts are more about .Net that has given me some thoughts. I suggest you go get it now :-)
I'm now starting his second book on UI Design for Programmers and I'll just give one review for this one but so far it looks good :-)
