Stung again, several times in one day. Systems that fail to report problems can waste everyone’s time. The problem is that such system appear to be running fine, and that is great for lazy programmers and product managers alike. Just . Say . No .
A co-worker on an agile project was showing me a feature he was perfecting, and it was looking pretty good with features to add and remove various settings as per the design. I wanted to try it. He said “sorry, the create function is not implemented yet.” It got me thinking…. Continue reading
This article is about software design, and makes the case that flexibility for flexibility sake should never be your goal. There is a very delicate balance between design and implementation in order to provide both usability and capability when it comes to software. Flexibility is often held up as a axiom, but flexibility should be provided only to the extend that it is actually needed by the end user. Continue reading
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