Maybe this page didn’t look so bad in 2004, but it certainly does now. I’m sure buried under all the syndicated ads there’s actually a half-decent article trying to get out, but all you get is this:

As software spreads from computers into auto engines, factory robots, hospital X-ray machines and elsewhere, defects are no longer a problem to be managed. They must be predicted and excised or else unanticipated uses will lead to unintended consequ

Well there’s nothing like leading by example!

FogBugz is an amazing piece of sofware. Joel Spolsky‘s company appear to have come up with the impossible: software that not only helps you to keep track of your software projects, but is also functionally beautiful and beautifully functional.

That’s something pretty rare in software. One of my mantras when testing is…

First, make it work. Then worry about making it pretty.

(The latter hardly ever happens of course.) FogBugz embodies both, and others agree. Now I’m waiting for a 45-day project to come up so I can try it out, for free, in anger.