World's fastest bug fix
I was using the nifty developer's API at the Echo Nest
to fill out some of the data for the SXSW Artist Catalog. I
encountered a bug where the API would return an HTTP response code of
500 for some artists. I posted a description of the bug,
grabbed another cup of coffee and then re-ran my artist crawler. I
noticed that my crawler was no longer encountering the bug. Suspecting
that I may have just encountered a glitch, I went back to the Echo Nest
developer's forum to add a note when I saw that they had already replied
to my request and had fixed the bug. So in four minutes
they had: 1) Noticed my bug report, 2) identified it as real bug, 3)
fixed the bug, 4) deployed the fix, and 5) Posted a response to the bug
report. I think that may be a world record bug fix time for a deployed
web application. Nicely done, Echo Nest.