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Poorly designed code usually takes more code to do the same things, often because the code quite literally does the same thing in several places.

So I hope I've made clear that imposing agile methods is a very red flag.

If someone were to come up to you in a dark alley and say, "Psst, wanna see a UML diagram?" that
diagram would probably be a class diagram.

The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing.

Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it's dangerous when you use it to justify answers.

If you're afraid to change something it is clearly poorly designed.

I've learned to always avoid saying "always".

... parts of classic MVC don't really make sense for rich clients these days.

A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others.

If you're a technical lead, you need to be coding.

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

A heuristic we follow is that whenever we feel the need to comment something, we write a method instead.

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

I can only think of so many good ideas in a week. Having other people contribute makes my life easier.

When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed.

I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed

I can't choose whether someone is offended by my actions. I can choose whether I care.

If you can get today's work done today, but you do it in such a way that you can't possibly get tomorrow's work done tomorrow, then you lose.

Comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.

One of the big dangers is to pretend that you can follow a predictable process when you can't.

Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.