I've discovered the secret to forcing all programmers to develop strong verbal communication skills.
1. Call at 11:15pm
2. Say "Hey, we've got this funny glitch that's keeping our product from going out the door"
3. Watch the programmer suddenly develop the ability to instruct other people how to run the program, the debugger, edit the code, etc.
(unfortunately, it turned out to be something I couldn't debug over the phone, but I did get at least a partial fix in before 1:00am and now our standalone demo is shipping (yay))
Posted by matt at September 23, 2004 11:00 AM