Non Hero Designer software?

[ChaosDrgn]

Any word on when v.3 is actually going to come out?

[AndrewD2]

Any word on when v.3 is actually going to come out?

I believe Dan has said it'll be out mid-late March.

[Simon]

Yup....Rod is feverishly slaving/working away on the documentation and I should be getting the support site up and running this weekend.

Once I sober up from St. Pat's, I'm hoping to get things up and running and make the installers available for purchase.

[ChaosDrgn]

Once I sober up from St. Pat's, I'm hoping to get things up and running and make the installers available for purchase.

So if your like me it should be sometime around mid-August....

[Simon]

So if your like me it should be sometime around mid-August....

Perhaps sober up is too strong of a phrasing....

"When I regain feeling in my fingers."

[ghost-angel]

a proper programmer is never "sober" ... they are always buzzed... either alcohol or caffeine depending on the time of day.

[Simon]

a proper programmer is never "sober" ... they are always buzzed... either alcohol or caffeine depending on the time of day.

Either/or?!?!???

You, my friend, have been missing out on the glories of mixing your depressants and stimulants. The right combination of caffeine and Guinness can work wonders on your programming abilities....

[ghost-angel]

alcohol puts me right to sleep... and no one will give me any Decent uppers (they usually express this with a look of horror and backing out of the room to go get me some Guiness to put me back to sleep...)

[Starwolf]

a proper programmer is never "sober" ... they are always buzzed... either alcohol or caffeine depending on the time of day.

Mmmm.....

NO DOZE, with a pizza and JOLT Cola chaser..

[John Desmarais]

a proper programmer is never "sober" ... they are always buzzed... either alcohol or caffeine depending on the time of day.

Back in my early college days my standard practice was to write my code drunk and debug sober. It worked better than you'd expect.








Now, I'm a professional programmer and work in an office where they would frown upon this practice.

[Curufea]

Professional programmers debug?
Or am I just thinking of Microsoft..

[ChaosDrgn]

Professional programmers debug?
Or am I just thinking of Microsoft..

Microsoft programmers are professional?

[John Desmarais]

Microsoft programmers are professional?

Microsoft has many talented professional working for them - most of whom are required to work on that huge, monoliothic, pile of code fixes on top of code fixes on top of code fixes on top of bad code on top of ported code known as Windows. I think the fact that any of them can dive into the monsterous source-code libraries for Windows and actually accomplish anything is impressive.

Corporate programming is a completely different world from what many people expect when the decide they want to be a programmer. Not only do you rarely get to choose what to write, you usually don't get to code the entirety of anything - insteadm, you build pieces that need to work with pieces written by many other programmers. I frequently long for the day when I could develop a system, in it's entirety, from start to finish all by myself.

[tancred]

My experience as a programmer has been completely different. But then, I've mostly worked in small shops, where either I was solely responsible for my particular project, or, as now, I am the only programmer in the company.

I've enjoyed the luxury of being able to build systems from the ground up. I have had to clean up legacy code, though. In particular, my last job involved fixing the work of the sloppiest programmer I've ever had the misfortune to meet. The kind of programmer who would select ALL the columns from an 80-column table when he needed 4 of them, because he was too lazy to type out the column names in his SELECT query. Drove me batty.

But for the most part, I've been lucky to mostly only have to clean up my own work. I've been extremely fortunate, particularly considering that it took me 15 years to break out of technical support and into programming.

[atlascott]

It can be a pet peeve all you want -- doesn't change the fact that having _any_ free demo version is simply a courtesy to potential buyers of the app. If you don't find it useful -- GOOD. It shouldn't be.

Wow. This is the most hostile and ignorant-of-marketing post by a company rep I have seen in a long while.

I do not mean to go into 'attack mode' but really--you want your demo to be a piece of junk that provides no value? You sure about that? That's going to motivate sales how?

It also isn't a courtesy to buyers--it is a sales device, pure and simple. There are an awful lot of companies out there selling their software with a time limit or a use limit. It is a completely viable approach, and frankly, an approach that companies which are confident of their products offer, because they are proud, rather than afraid of, their products functionality.

HD2 has formatting issues. Another way of saying that is: it requires far too much monkeying to get a decent character sheet printed. THe UI is circa 1998--like something you'd see from that time period. Using the app ought to be darn close to a no brainer. If it isn't, more reason to allow a user 30 days to use all the functions and decide whether to purchase.

There is a pressing, strong need for HD3. I will buy it the minute it comes out (when does it come out?)

Why the hostility to a potential customer, whose sale you almost certainly have lost now, by implying he is looking for a 'freebie?' Don't you want to make money?