11 March 2004

11Mar2004

Frameworks, Good Code and the Opposite of YAGNI

As a programmer, you're responsible for the code. If any of these other things get screwed up, your project may well be doomed. If any of these other things are done well, your project may succeed despite bad code. But at the end of the day, your job is to make the best of what _you're_ being paid to do.

11Mar2004

Introspection is the Enemy of Blogging

I've allowed myself time to think about them. The inspiration has faded, but in thinking I've given myself even more ideas that I need to perspire over before the article is done. And that's what kills them.