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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Code quality and development teams

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Robert C. Martin, aka “Uncle Bob”, lays into Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood: I was riding my exercise bike, listening to Stack Overflow #38 when I heard Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky say “Quality just doesn’t matter that much.” I nearly fell off my bike. (There’s a transcript of part of the podcast on Joel’s [...]

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“Best practice” considered harmful

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Oh yes boys and girls, despite what the “Project Management Manifesto” (and plenty of others) might like to say – ‘Best Practice’ is actually harmful. It is nearly always a codeword for kind of lazy thinking looking to apply a template from someplace else, and is inimical to actual excellence. While experience will give you [...]

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The rewrite will be ready shortly

Sunday, February 1, 2009

You might have seen the following cartoon before: It’s from a site called The Project Cartoon. What I didn’t know was the site allows you to use the little cartoons to make your own version. You can caption and re-order the panels. For your amusement, and perhaps your edification, I present “The Rewrite Will Be [...]

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