A Program's Finishing Touch
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I am currently finishing up a project, and I am trying to think of a good easter egg or something that would give the project it's "finishing touch." Does anyone have any good ideas on what gives a program a great finishing touch? Does anyone also have any opinions on what makes a good easter egg in a program or even if easter eggs are such a good idea? Thanks Bob X
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Nah, it was a pretty cool fairly interactive editor. It had menus, ascii tables, and everything! It was the bees kness! :-D - Phil
Is it my ED? See sig. Neville Franks, Author of Surfulater www.surfulater.com "Save what you Surf" and ED for Windows www.getsoft.com
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Is it my ED? See sig. Neville Franks, Author of Surfulater www.surfulater.com "Save what you Surf" and ED for Windows www.getsoft.com
No, but your ED does look good indeed. I am thinking of a real deal DOS program, I still have the exe, and it still runs great, but I haven't found any information on it. Perhaps I should start a wikipedia page on this little piece of history :D - Phil
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I am currently finishing up a project, and I am trying to think of a good easter egg or something that would give the project it's "finishing touch." Does anyone have any good ideas on what gives a program a great finishing touch? Does anyone also have any opinions on what makes a good easter egg in a program or even if easter eggs are such a good idea? Thanks Bob X
Best thing is to make sure the buillt in help is up to date - you'd be surprised how often the help doesn't match the application! Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D
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No, but your ED does look good indeed. I am thinking of a real deal DOS program, I still have the exe, and it still runs great, but I haven't found any information on it. Perhaps I should start a wikipedia page on this little piece of history :D - Phil
pmartin wrote:
No, but your ED does look good indeed. I am thinking of a real deal DOS program, I still have the exe, and it still runs great, but I haven't found any information on it.
I assume your ED doesn't have a GUI, nor Help|About. There was edlin back on MS-DOS. My ED started life as "ED for DOS" and was pretty popular in its day. It competed with Brief back then. Some people are even still using it today. Neville Franks, Author of Surfulater www.surfulater.com "Save what you Surf" and ED for Windows www.getsoft.com
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I am currently finishing up a project, and I am trying to think of a good easter egg or something that would give the project it's "finishing touch." Does anyone have any good ideas on what gives a program a great finishing touch? Does anyone also have any opinions on what makes a good easter egg in a program or even if easter eggs are such a good idea? Thanks Bob X
I've put a invincible 3D pong into a program... You can play it for hours and the program never be beaten... VERY addictive... It was really nice joke, for a "serious" program (an ACO engine).. The real finishing touch is a good tenting... Lots of programs have lots of bugs due lack of testing I'm on a Fuzzy State: Between 0 an 1
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I am currently finishing up a project, and I am trying to think of a good easter egg or something that would give the project it's "finishing touch." Does anyone have any good ideas on what gives a program a great finishing touch? Does anyone also have any opinions on what makes a good easter egg in a program or even if easter eggs are such a good idea? Thanks Bob X
I would reckon that depends on who the customer is.... Example: If you are a permanent employee of the company and a part of the "family" and it's all a cozy in-house relationship between you, the users, and the software, then it could be fun to put something in there. Example: If you are an independent consultant building software that will be in the proprietary ownership of your customer, then it's not yours to play with, and it would be rather unprofessional to put a "fun" easer egg in the application. Ultiamtely, it depends on the culture in which you are working, contractor or otherwise, as to what's appropriate. I liked the first answer to this question, the bichin-est mark you can place on an appilcation is that it works flawlessly. Validate everything in every concievable way, make sure the interface is seamless, leaveing no question from the users, and make sure everything fits and matches the audience. In other words, the best easter-egg is no gaps, no surprises, no user-work-arounds, and no confusion. Hope that helps... :o) jim out!
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I am currently finishing up a project, and I am trying to think of a good easter egg or something that would give the project it's "finishing touch." Does anyone have any good ideas on what gives a program a great finishing touch? Does anyone also have any opinions on what makes a good easter egg in a program or even if easter eggs are such a good idea? Thanks Bob X
Can be a good idea if you have the time and your team needs a little creative boost. Good for morale, but doesn't really benefit the customer. Factoid: The MS Windows team instituted a prohibition against Easter Eggs in 1999. This came as a result of an NSA requirement for W2K receiving any kind of security clearance. I've always been curious how many were snuck in anyway.
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I am currently finishing up a project, and I am trying to think of a good easter egg or something that would give the project it's "finishing touch." Does anyone have any good ideas on what gives a program a great finishing touch? Does anyone also have any opinions on what makes a good easter egg in a program or even if easter eggs are such a good idea? Thanks Bob X
I can think of something I believe it will be new... What about shipping your program with 3d Graphical, or even video inrtoduction just like big games? Or at least video your screen while using common aspects of your program, and ship it with audio commentary as a video tutorial? I think these things may help and yet be a new addin to programs. A new "Easter Egg".:)
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One of the greatest dos editors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edlin