On a Murphy’s Laws calendar I once had, I found Weinberg’s Second Law, which goes “If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.” What about if programmers made e-books? The Toronto Review of Books has an interview with Chris Stevens, the co-creator of the [...]
Murphy
Book-production management is, in many respects, an act of faith. For some, faith in the universality of Murphy’s Law—if something can go wrong, it will. Or, faith that virtue is its own reward—if you do everything right, things will always come out right. Old hands come to realize that “trust but verify” is probably the most prudent maxim to apply in managing workflow. Without systems in place and proven procedures, we’d have to reinvent the wheel every time. But without an occasional revisit to the last batch of XBIT transactions or Job Definition Format (JDF) specifications sent through, that error in the PMS color
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