Recent Writing

I wonder if the bean counters at Sage can afford an additional letter in their slogan?

Ken Coar made an interesting post about an alternative development model; Bug Limitation through Optimised Audience Targeting (BLOAT). To paraphrase, it basically uses the magpie approach to control users; that is distracting them with new shiny things, so that they forget whatever the current and past problems are.

Why on earth is it that when you tell Skype that you don't want it to "adjust your sound device settings", you discover that it continues to do so?

In general I try to stay away from most Sage software as much as possible, but today we were handed a call with regards to ACT throwing an invalid pointer. We've been told its an error caused by a firewall issue and that we're to check it.

There must be a club, or something, for some users who love to just take the piss. Across various companies we support, theres literally hundreds of iTunes directories. Since we don't actually get employed for the companies, we can't just go in and trample on said directories (invasion of privacy, etc.). Today one company gave us …