Comments on: My Kung Fu is the Best http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=166 simplify Wed, 31 Oct 2018 04:08:37 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: matt http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=166&cpage=1#comment-226 matt Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:46:17 +0000 http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=166#comment-226 @yorba There's a reason for that. This post was triggered in part by one of the recent Stackoverflow podcasts. I haven't seen Bob's responses to Joel though. I'm not a TDD zealot (I used to be) but I hate seeing things misrepresented, especially when subtle but important points are being missed. I like Joel but I think sometimes he doesn't try too hard to see things from other points of view. I think that is generally symptomatic of the profession... After a while you convince yourself that you've got it all figured out. And shortly after that you move into management. Ack! :) @yorba There’s a reason for that. This post was triggered in part by one of the recent Stackoverflow podcasts. I haven’t seen Bob’s responses to Joel though.

I’m not a TDD zealot (I used to be) but I hate seeing things misrepresented, especially when subtle but important points are being missed. I like Joel but I think sometimes he doesn’t try too hard to see things from other points of view. I think that is generally symptomatic of the profession… After a while you convince yourself that you’ve got it all figured out. And shortly after that you move into management. Ack! :)

]]> By: yorba http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=166&cpage=1#comment-225 yorba Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:52:08 +0000 http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=166#comment-225 it calls to mind unclebob's reaction to joel spolsky's statement that you can have good code with tdd. tdd might be analagous to a doctor washing his hands but it might be closer to a doctor prescribing antibiotics for everything. and then you have mrsa it calls to mind unclebob’s reaction to joel spolsky’s statement that you can have good code with tdd.

tdd might be analagous to a doctor washing his hands

but it might be closer to a doctor prescribing antibiotics for everything. and then you have mrsa

]]> By: Matt W. http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=166&cpage=1#comment-224 Matt W. Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:20:05 +0000 http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=166#comment-224 Beautiful. Beautiful.

]]> By: matt http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=166&cpage=1#comment-223 matt Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:26:51 +0000 http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=166#comment-223 This guy (link below) is talking about the exact same type of thing I'm talking about, only in more specific terms re: agile development. Worth a read if you like what I had to say here. http://www.noop.nl/2009/02/the-decline-and-fall-of-agilists.html This guy (link below) is talking about the exact same type of thing I’m talking about, only in more specific terms re: agile development. Worth a read if you like what I had to say here.

http://www.noop.nl/2009/02/the-decline-and-fall-of-agilists.html

]]> By: matt http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=166&cpage=1#comment-222 matt Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:20:12 +0000 http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=166#comment-222 @AdamD pdxwi is great. I missed this last one but hope to make it to more in the future. @AdamD pdxwi is great. I missed this last one but hope to make it to more in the future.

]]> By: AdamD http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=166&cpage=1#comment-221 AdamD Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:52:16 +0000 http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=166#comment-221 Couldn't agree more. Too often people fall so in love with their technology that they think everything else is sub-par. Or, they forget that the things that are important to them might not be the things that are important to others. That's actually a big part of why we started Portland Web Innovators. We wanted to get together, talk about the web and not feel it necessary to focus only on the technologies that drive it. Couldn’t agree more. Too often people fall so in love with their technology that they think everything else is sub-par. Or, they forget that the things that are important to them might not be the things that are important to others.

That’s actually a big part of why we started Portland Web Innovators. We wanted to get together, talk about the web and not feel it necessary to focus only on the technologies that drive it.

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