Comments for Felix Blog

Comment on How much information to collect from users by Lacresha Desruisseaux

Lacresha Desruisseaux — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:45:39 +0000

Just landed on this place via Google seek. I love it. This post change my perceptual experience and I am bringing the RSS feeds. Cheers Up.

Comment on Translation memory with non-repetitive texts by Salina Jaskolka

Salina Jaskolka — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:38:54 +0000

Been researching for web pages for such info , appreciate it

Comment on Felix extension for OpenOffice Writer by admin

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:08:09 +0000

@Charles

Thanks a lot for the feedback. Knowing which features users value the most helps me to focus my development efforts.

Comment on Felix extension for OpenOffice Writer by Charles Aschmann

Charles Aschmann — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:35:03 +0000

I finally got around to installing this for the Writer in OO 3.1. I will experiment with it as time allows. I too am quite happy to have it and hope development continues.
Thanks for the hard work.

Comment on Working with an old code base by admin

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:01:28 +0000

@Jason

If you’ve got a buggy mess that was never working, then a rewrite makes more sense. As Brooks said: plan to throw one away — you will anyway.

But when you’ve got working software, it’s almost always far more productive to get it into maintainable shape than to start over from scratch.

Comment on Working with an old code base by Jason

Jason — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:45:12 +0000

On the other hand, the first version of Half Life was salvaged by a complete rewrite.

I suspect the rules are:

1. if you are racing against competitors (like Netscape or WordPerfect were) do not do the rewrite.

2. if you don’t fully understand the original code then do not do the rewrite.

3. if you wrote the original code base while you were a copmlete noob and have learned alot in the process, do the rewrite if the schedule can be slipped.

Comment on Working with an old code base by Sako

Sako — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:32:26 +0000

After reading this, I was reminded of Joel Spolsky’s “Things You Should Never Do, Part I,” in which he describes how deciding to do a complete rewrite ultimately doomed Netscape 6 before it was even released.

The unfortunate decision to start again from scratch has had undesirable effects on many great applications, but I’m glad to hear that Felix will be spared such a fate!

Comment on Avangate eliminates PayPal fees on payments by admin

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:15:17 +0000

@Vladimir

I only use Avangate as a payment processor, so I’m not familiar with their other services. I believe that they have a reseller network.

Comment on Browsing your TMs/glossaries in Felix by Gururaj

Gururaj — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:21:09 +0000

Now this is a pretty useful feature – one of the best. Thanks, Ryan.

Comment on Avangate eliminates PayPal fees on payments by Vladimir M

Vladimir M — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:48:19 +0000

Hello,

I have an offer from Avangate to be their client, what about web marketing, do they deal with it?