SoftwareQuotes.com

Welcome, fellow software developers from around the world. We have collected quotations that we hope will help promote better software. If the reader is aware of others that deserve to be recognized here, we would appreciate your sending them to us.

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Carbonite.com - Our New Sponsor

Carbonite: "Online backup done well... You set it up once and after that it just works." PC World.
Carbonite.com is not just our new sponsor - we are already using it on 5 computers and it is great.

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33 New Quotes
33 New Quotes Added to SoftwareQuotes.com:
- Frederick P. Brooks - "Successful software always gets changed..."
- Frederick P. Brooks - "All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery..."
- Frederick P. Brooks - "...well over half of the time you spend working on a project..."
- Frederick P. Brooks - "Plan to throw one away; you will anyhow..."
- Frederick P. Brooks - "Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build...."
- Frederick P. Brooks - "The hardest single part of building a software system is..."
- Frederick P. Brooks - "Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in..."
- Frederick P. Brooks - "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later...."
- Frederick P. Brooks - "All repairs tend to destroy the structure, to increase the..."
- Frederick P. Brooks - "The fundamental problem with software maintenance is that..."
- Frederick P. Brooks - "For picking the milestones there is only one relevant rule..."
- Frederick P. Brooks - "How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time..."
- Frederick P. Brooks - "Failure to allow enough time for system test, in particular..."
- Frederick P. Brooks - "I will contend that conceptual integrity is the most..."

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TimeSnapper.com
I‘ve been using a tool called TimeSnapper to help track my time for the past year and it‘s been so useful that I wanted to share it with my readers.
On their website, they call it an „Automatic Screenshot Journal“. It takes periodic screenshots of your desktop and you can later on browse through it just like a movie.
You don‘t have to worry about it eating up your hard drive since it‘s totally configurable. They also have a slew of other features to help you with the timesheets.
It has also saved me several times from losing data!
They have a free version called TimeSnapper Classic and a licensed version called TimeSnapper Professional.

Conclusion: Pragmatic program for those who need to bill by the hour, fill in timesheets or just those interested in seeing where their time went!

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10 new quotes
Today we added 10 new quotes to SoftwareQuotes.com:
- Bertrand Meyer - "The focus on external interfaces is inevitable in..."
- Frederick P. Brooks - "A little retrospection shows that although many..."
- Edsger Dijkstra - "I pray daily that more of my fellow programmers..."
- Edsger Dijkstra - "The competent programmer is fully aware of the..."
- Edsger Dijkstra - "I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing..."
- Martin Fowler - "Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. I..."
- Martin Fowler - "I wrote that about aesthetics in discussing when..."
- Brian W. Kernighan - "Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class..."
- Martin Fowler - "When you actually sit down to write some code, you..."
- Anonymous - "There exists no "improce performance" checkbox..."