Why are bugs in software inevitable? One of my arguments is that knowing what to test is one of the most difficult parts of testing itself. Bugs creep up in the areas we never thought to look. As software gets more complex, those undiscovered areas get bigger and more disparate.I recently had the privilege of
Much like the origin of Harvest, DoneDone is a tool that spawned out of our own frustration when trying to manage a daily work task in a straightforward way. In our case, it was trying to log and manage software bugs with our various client projects for our consultancy, We Are Mammoth. When we began
How Harvest and DoneDone make time tracking accurate and low maintenance Read More »
This year will mark my seventeenth year programming on the Web. It all started in the late nineties in college, dabbling in table-based web design, classic ASP, and Microsoft Access databases. What started off as a hobby has become a career and a passion. I’ve spent half of my life learning, stumbling, succeeding, failing, and
Life imitates code: Three life lessons I’ve learned from programming Read More »
Remote working is something that companies need to prepare for as much as the employees.
Regardless of what path to programming you take, there are many things — too complex and nebulous to explain concretely — that stand between those who want to become great programmers and those who, by unanimous agreement, are. You can’t just tell a newbie programmer, “Go learn about these 56 things and then you will
Learn to code in 90 days! Then what? Here are five goals for your first year. Read More »
Bugs happen in programming. To reduce bugs, test through 5 steps and focus on finding leaks rather than puddles.
Want to introduce fewer bugs? Test through these five cases. Read More »
This week, DoneDone turns five years old. I wanted to tell you a little bit about our story and what we’ve learned. Our story is, perhaps, the story of many bootstrapped SaaS applications. Full of major feature additions and minor feature tweaks. Full of emotional highs and lows. Full of steady-as-she-goes growth. We initially built
On Wednesday, a security vulnerability surrounding OpenSSL called “Heartbleed” was revealed. It’s a bug that most affected websites, web hosts, and software developers around the world remediated within hours. If you’d like to read more about Heartbleed, here’s a great overview, and here’s a site to see whether the sites you use for email, shopping,
On Wednesday morning, I woke up nervous – in both the best and worst ways you can be nervous. We had just released the all new redesign of DoneDone the evening prior. It was a load off of our team’s collective shoulders just to have it up – living and breathing – for all the
As many of you experienced, we had an outage earlier today, February 4, from 8:35AM to 1:04PM UTC. First off, we are truly sorry for the downtime. This certainly had its greatest impact on our friends across both the Atlantic and Pacific. We want to apologize for the hours of productivity you may have lost
