How ___ to develop great software: A Guide
By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News NetworkFriday, April 1, 2005
Cookies are good. Spend around half the time of application development in creating cookies. Users revel in the cookie hunt much more then using the application. Make it challenging for them. Do not spare on the graphics, do not think about memory or disk usage. Customers do not care about them either so why should you?
ARTICLE CONTINUED BELOWRemember when developing any application that you are never going to maintain it. After you are done with the application you will invariably move to the next one. If it a open source project just leave the old one in the hand of newbies who want to make a name by writing in their resume that they have worked in so-and-so open source applications. If in doubt how to phrase the letter please refer to the seminal struts announcement.
Quality Assurance (QA)
Quality Assurance is for weenies, not for real developers. A real developer can only be forced to let his product be QA’ed at gunpoint or by or-else-you-are-fired threat. Even then he will do his absolute best to make life hell for QA. The best response to defects found by QA is to state blankly that it is a feature. With XP products it is easier because old-fashioned-QA-folks will never know how to make sense of thousands of loose stick-it notes on XP board (remember no documentation).
QA is absolutely not required for Open Source products. By definition they are of the highest quality as has been successfully argued by several stalwarts with the multiple-eyeballs theory and with the glorious examples of Jakarta-Commons, Jelly and numerous sourceforge projects to prove the point.
The best way for open source users to find a defect is from customers who must create an account and login to BugTraq (or is it BugTrack?) to submit the defects. It is blasphemous to report defects publicly. The irrefutable logic being –“You know the product is open source, they are devoting time out of their own good will and how dare you complain of defects? Go fix it yourself or file in BugTrak and wait as long as it takes. If you don’t like it don’t use it and ask for a refund <grin>.”
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May 25, 2005: 5:12 am
@Ronan > Remember some developers can be as dumb as users. A guide of things not to do is also a guide. Not every guide has to follow the “ten commandment” approach to preach. |
 Ronan |
May 25, 2005: 5:02 am
How about actually writting a real guide to development practices other than taking the piss and therefore contributing to some programmers actually falling into using the pitfalls mentioned in your ramblings. Remember some developers can be as dumb as users. geek |
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