I am Famous!

Well, that is to the people who subscribe to the Embedded Muse newsletter by Jack Ganssle.

The following is an excerpt of his 151st edition of the newsletter. The "engineer" was me! I mentioned this to him during his Better Firmware Faster seminar in Singapore on the 18 and 19 October 2007.

Heh, Jack Ganssle actually learnt something from ME! :-)

On an unrelated note, an engineer recently referred me to another of
Joel's posts that I had somehow missed:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html . It's
Joel's test of a healthy software organization. Do read the article,
but he believes we should all be able to answer "yes" to these
questions:

- Do you use source control? 
- Can you make a build in one step? 
- Do you make daily builds? 
- Do you have a bug database? 
- Do you fix bugs before writing new code? 
- Do you have an up-to-date schedule? 
- Do you have a spec? 
- Do programmers have quiet working conditions? 
- Do you use the best tools money can buy? 
- Do you have testers? 
- Do new candidates write code during their interview? 
- Do you do hallway usability testing?

I'm a bit unconvinced about the last question for most embedded apps,
but these others are spot-on.