Over-Engineering

While working through a problem at work I had some random thoughts and some inspiration from Mr. Graham, on why most enterprise software sucks.

  • Build for the problem, do not build to find a problem. – Me
  • If you are building a solution where users need to acknowledge messages on web pages, start by building the web pages not the database that holds the messages. – Me
  • ??Build the simplest solution to the problem, a rough sketch of problem, then make small iterations towa
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Posted by Carlos Gabaldon on November 05, 2007 | 0 Comments | Filed under  software  programming  




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  1. Justin said

    We will be there..Thanks for the detailed info…
  2. Carlos said

    I am on the fence with Captcha, it works, but usability can be a problem. Thanks for the l..
  3. Willie Wheeler said

    You don’t like CAPTCHAs?

    Here are some funny ones:

    http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10487..
  4. Carlos said

    Not that I am aware of, but I will splunk Sinatra a bit to see what I find…
  5. Ryan said

    Is there a way to change the HAML config with Sinatra?..