I purchased the DVD Aardvark'd: 12 weeks with geeks from Fog Creek Software and I got it in the mail today.  This documentary got my attention because a.) it was about Fog Creek Software which is a company that I admire and b.) because it was a documentary about creating a software product.  This is exciting to me because I am a geek and creating software is fun for me.  I wanted to see how others did it.  Its almost like nerd voyeurism....

The video is about how four interns hired by Fog Creek Software and their task was to create a software product from start to finish in one summer.  If I had a chance to do this during an internship, I would cream.  That would be a lot of fun...a lot more fun then the year 2000 COBOL fixes that I did.  They ended up completing their task and came up with CoPilot, which is an application to allow people to connect to another person's computer in an easy way over the internet and control computers. Dammit, thats another great idea I didn't think of...

I just finished watching it and it is alright.  I thought that they would have more coverage on the actual creating of the software.  The steps they went through, problems that came up, etc.  They had some of that but not enough.  Some people may think that would be pretty boring but I think that it would be interesting to the people who are buying the movie.  It was very, very well put together.  It had nice cover art, a nice soundtrack, and very good editing.  Props to Boondoggle Films and Fog Creek Software.  The content was the only thing that was ok.  They some stupid subplot about some damn tomatoes that didn't fit in there.  I know it was supposed to tie in with the timing of the internship but they could of found a better way to do this.

I would recommend it overall since it is only $20 with shipping.  I wish that Netflix would of had it but they don't yet.  I am jeolous of Fog Creek's offices.  They had pretty cool offices with plasmas, etc.  I will copy some of there ideas when its time to get my own offices....Anyway, you should pick up your own copy.