That’s nice, but we never use it
Not the words you want to be hearing from your users if you are a developer on a web site or application. Unfortunately it happens more often than you would think. A fantastic new feature is dreamed up and added. It’s tested thoroughly, it looks really good, it will save heaps of time. But no [...]
Creating vs Consuming
I read an really good article that mentioned having a balance between creating and consuming. Unfortunately I can’t seem to be able to find it any more. I think the reason is that the concept didn’t hit me straight away… I remember reading the article and then perhaps a day or two later I got [...]
Embarrassment Index
I was pondering (always dangerous) the other day about being embarrassed in social situations which eventually led me to the idea of an embarrassment index: a number between 0 and 1 that essentially is the level of embarrassment you feel when in public. Further to this, I was thinking, what exactly flips the embarrassment switch. [...]
Solve the problem at hand
Recently, I’ve had a bit of a paradigm shift in the way I think about software development. Essentially, that shift is to only focus on solving the problem at hand and not to write additional code just in case it might be needed. Credit for this comes from the excellent RailsTips article, Just in Time, [...]