Comments on: The Development Pendulum

By: jsonmez

jsonmez — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:56:33 +0000

In reply to Eric Blanco. Nope, hadn't heard that before. I do see the resemblance though.

By: Eric Blanco

Eric Blanco — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:43:07 +0000

Hey John, has anybody told you you’re a dead-ringer for Shane Walsh on the Walking Dead?

By: Houssam Hamdan

Houssam Hamdan — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:53:33 +0000

This is soooo true. cheers ,,,

By: Russ Reese

Russ Reese — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:29:40 +0000

Very perceptive. Check out this talk by Dan North – I think you’ll like it

http://www.viddler.com/v/a0501e85

I think the connection is that the term “Best Practices” is often tied to “what is cool right now”.

By: TKW

TKW — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:59:37 +0000

Excellent and IMHO accurate observations. I personally believe that much of the churn is a result of wanting to trade engineering for “Best Practice” or “Patterns”. From a CS perspective there are always a multitude of ways to model a process, and there are costs as well as benefits to each. It is our lazy desire to avoid the engineering effort of deciding what is best for a specific case that leads us to want a fixed answer for a class of problem. And human nature is such that when you have a new hammer everything looks like a nail.

By: JMP

JMP — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:36:13 +0000

An upshot from your post: there are no best practices, as though we could find the ultimate way to solve any particular problem for all time. They are really the best practices we have found so far.

I think the software community as a whole needs to temper our ego a bit.

By: codinglifestyle

codinglifestyle — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:56:24 +0000

Reblogged this on Coding Lifestyle and commented: I like waffles too!

By: jsonmez

jsonmez — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:56:25 +0000

In reply to SciFi Geek. Just don't hold onto any one thing too tightly :)

By: SciFi Geek

SciFi Geek — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:05:32 +0000

I wish you didn’t point these things out. It almost makes me feel silly standing behind some new way of doing things, knowing that either its been done before and abandoned or, it will soon go out of style. 🙁 You have a very glass half full way of looking at it.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:37:51 +0000

Hegel called this “Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis,_antithesis,_synthesis