Funny thing in today's e-mail...
Ian Michael Gumby remarked that a DB2Mag e-mail seemed to feature Informix articles more evenly, wondering if complaints caused it. Captain Pedantic asked about the term dogfooding; Ian defined it as self-hosting mission-critical systems on beta or release software. Fernando Nunes guessed Informix had done well recently and the editors had been reminded. Light chat, no technical problem.
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New e-mail from DB2Mag... Notice that there appears to be more parity in the highlighted articles? Now is this because someone bitched loud enough to get someone's attention? Or just the luck of the draw? The point, boys and girls. Sometimes you need to crack the whip to get the attention of the horse pulling the cart. Sometimes carrots and blinders don't work. But hey! What do I know? I've never tried cured horse meat while sitting in a frozen trench almost a century ago. ;-) -G _________________________________________________________________ Talk to your Yahoo! Friends via Windows Live Messenger. Find out how. http://www.windowslive.com/explore/messenger?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_messenger_yahoo_082008
>> "Ian Michael Gumby" <im_gumby@hotmail.com> wrote in message >> news:mailman.1530.1219154672.20610.informix-list@iiug.org... New e-mail from DB2Mag... My DB2Mag email also contained this gem: 3. Tech term of the day * If you're dogfooding, is that a good thing or bad? Do they mean "dogging"? It's a good thing I'd say!
Dogfooding is slang for self-hosting mission critical systems on top of beta or release. And yeah, we all do this when we have to... ;-) > From: theharlequin36@hotmail.com > Subject: Re: Funny thing in today's e-mail... > Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:05:46 +0100 > To: informix-list@iiug.org > > >> "Ian Michael Gumby" <im_gumby@hotmail.com> wrote in message > >> news:mailman.1530.1219154672.20610.informix-list@iiug.org... > New e-mail from DB2Mag... > > My DB2Mag email also contained this gem: > > 3. Tech term of the day > * If you're dogfooding, is that a good thing or bad? > > Do they mean "dogging"? It's a good thing I'd say! > > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list _________________________________________________________________ Get thousands of games on your PC, your mobile phone, and the web with Windows®. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/108588800/direct/01/
Captain Pedantic wrote: >>> "Ian Michael Gumby" <im_gumby@hotmail.com> wrote in message >>> news:mailman.1530.1219154672.20610.informix-list@iiug.org... > New e-mail from DB2Mag... > > My DB2Mag email also contained this gem: > > 3. Tech term of the day > * If you're dogfooding, is that a good thing or bad? > > Do they mean "dogging"? It's a good thing I'd say! Accordingly to somethings I read here it's probably because it has done very well in the last quarters and also because someone pointed out that dogfooding has been forgotten by the magazine editors! -- Fernando Nunes Portugal http://informix-technology.blogspot.com My email works... but I don't check it frequently...