{"id":458,"date":"2007-12-21T11:35:50","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T10:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=458"},"modified":"2007-12-21T11:35:50","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T10:35:50","slug":"when-good-software-goes-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/458-when-good-software-goes-bad.html","title":{"rendered":"When good software goes bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Verity Stob looks at feature bloat and a few other things in her piece on apps that have gotten worse over the years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Confession: I use Paint Shop Pro too, although I have Photoshop installed as part of Adobe’s Web Premium CS3. In my case it is PSP version 5.0. PSP starts in a blink and has dead easy tools. Photoshop takes several seconds to start up and displays messages like “Initializing palettes” while it is getting going. There is nothing wrong with Photoshop<\/strong>, but equally if I just need to crop a screenshot quickly, I find myself using PSP and saving a few seconds.<\/p>\n

Stob’s piece is light-hearted and unfair (I like C#) but a fun read. <\/p>\n

I remember meeting a programmer back in the days of DOS and strict memory limits. He told me that every time he added a new feature, he had to find some other code he could remove in order to fit it in. A nightmare of course; but it prevented bloat.<\/p>\n

It’s one of the reasons I like the Asus Eee PC. It is underpowered by many standards, but small, light, starts from cold in less than 30 seconds, and works fine for most everyday tasks.<\/p>\n

Just another take on less is more.<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: verity stob<\/a>, paintshop pro<\/a>, photoshop<\/a>, adobe<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verity Stob looks at feature bloat and a few other things in her piece on apps that have gotten worse over the years. Confession: I use Paint Shop Pro too, although I have Photoshop installed as part of Adobe’s Web Premium CS3. In my case it is PSP version 5.0. PSP starts in a blink … Continue reading When good software goes bad<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}