The Mythical Bridge Engineer
Posted by Aurélien Pelletier | Filed under aside
Myth: All Engineers only ever work on bridges, and are selected from a small group of people inberd to have high ethics and no capacity for corner cutting. If only software developer could be like that.
Assaf Arkin
Tags: citation
A poor implementation of a bad idea
Posted by Aurélien Pelletier | Filed under aside
The only reason SOAP remains in the W3C for standardization is because all of the other forums either rejected the concept out of hand or refused to rubber-stamp a poor implementation of a bad idea.
Roy Fielding
Tags: citation
Humanistic view of development
Posted by Aurélien Pelletier | Filed under aside
Software is written by humans–emotional, fallible, creative, and messy–for other humans. Any attempt to treat development as robotic will end in tears.
Kent Beck
Tags: agile, citation, organisation
Social network
Posted by Aurélien Pelletier | Filed under aside
Whichever company gets there first, to a truly open, user-empowering, internet-turbocharging social network platform, is going to be the net’s next big winner.
Tim O’reilly
Tags: citation, social network
RESTable databases
Posted by Aurélien Pelletier | Filed under architecture, aside
REST plays the same role as open source and open APIs: It eliminates tooling and vendoring as artificial barriers to adoption.
Labnotes
Tags: architecture, citation, rest
People come back to places that send them away
Posted by Aurélien Pelletier | Filed under aside
People come back to places that send them away.
Dave Winner
la preuve avec google
Tags: citation
Quelle est la différence entre un développeur et un chef de projets ?
Posted by Aurélien Pelletier | Filed under aside
Quand un développeur parvient à reproduire un bug, il est tout excité car cela signifie qu’il va pouvoir le réparer.
Quand un chef de projets parvient à reproduire un bug, il est ennuyé car cela signifie que ce dernier existe encore.
Adrian Sutton
(lu chez Frédéric de Villamil)
Tags: citation
Continuous integration
Posted by Aurélien Pelletier | Filed under aside
Continuous integration is the ultimate solution to the good ol’ “hey but it works on my machine” issue.
Henrik Kniberg Scrum and Xp from the trenches
Reminder: You are Not Your User
Posted by Aurélien Pelletier | Filed under aside
Unless you’re writing programs for a bunch of burned out computer geeks, your user isn’t you
David S. Platt, Why Software Sucks
Tags: citation
Technology is plastic
Posted by Aurélien Pelletier | Filed under architecture, aside
all of us must learn at least enough to see that technology is plastic. It can be remade to do things differently
Lawrence Lessig Code V2
Tags: architecture, citation
