November 2006 Archives

Excellent post by Joel Spolsky:

This highlights a style of software design...driven by a desire for consensus and for "Making Everybody Happy," but it's based on the misconceived notion that lots of choices make people happy, which we really need to rethink.

(This picture was taken - without permission - from the Nov, 9th 2006 edition of the Süddeutsche Zeitung)

Stupendous post by Kevin Rutherford on why it's important to look beyond mere code duplication: The wrong duplication.