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Occasional and random personal reflections by Doug Kaye.
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Suck Less Isn't Progress. This good interview with Kent Beck by Scott Plamondon on IBM developerWorks will make you want to buy Kent's 1999 book, Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, if you haven't read it already. Beck is the #1 evangelist of extreme programming (XP). Some entertaining quips from the interview include:
- Until you care about answers you can make any program go really fast.
- Simplicity is about acknowledging the tricks exist but not using them.
- You're not a designer until you know the tricks, but you're not really a designer until you know when not to use them.
- Suck less isn't progress. [I love that one.]
Posted Tuesday, July 01, 2003 7:42:38 PM 
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Who Are Those Guys? In case you worry whether you can rely on the flaky developers of open-source products, consider that "58 percent of the open-source community is made up of professional IT administrators and programmers (with 11 years of professional experience, on average), and 30 percent of them will have to answer to their bosses if they don't write open-source code." That should help make your case for the CFO and the Board of Directors. [Back in March, Chris Kock wrote this interesting sidebar to a feature article on Your Opensource Plan in CIO Magazine.]
Posted Tuesday, July 01, 2003 7:23:33 PM
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