07.30.09

Best of Brent Simmons on Software Development for End-Users

Posted in Links, Software at 9:43 pm by Smokey

Brent Simmons, author of renowned feed reader NetNewsWire, periodically writes about software development issues as they pertain to end-users. He debunks common end-user myths and misconceptions about software development (“it’s like one line of code to add this”) and provides guidance to users about making good feature requests and bug reports (and why developers will ask you lots of questions along the way). Since I periodically want to refer back to these posts (and refer others to them) and Google is not nearly as omniscient as one might expect when entering "Brent Simmons" "software development for end users", I’ve decided that here is as good a place as any to collect them for my reference.

• How to manipulate me (or, Tuesday Whipper-Snapping)
• Don’t offer $50 for your favorite feature
• Anatomy of a feature

(Thanks to Brent for doing all the hard work of writing these articles, and apologies for appropriating your name for the title of this anthology.)

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