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Comment on Agile Chronicles #12: Technical Debt by Keyston Clay

Keyston Clay — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:09:58 +0000

Great post. This is the main reason why I don’t do website development anymore and more Software driven. I don’t know if its just me, but I have been called in to work on , what I would call, dead end projects. Meaning that the previous developer didn’t follow some of the basic practices, error checking,encapsulation, or basic structure in the code, basically following the mythology of “Throw it and see if it sticks”. I understand that some cases OOP is out of scope, or you may not have the time, but I have yet to see any cases like that with any project I’ve done and if you are packaging this off as a production ready application some thought needs to be made.

In regards to the bulk of this post, Technical Debt, through the years I have learned when its good to do a quick and dirty solution ( just to see if it works), then to spend a great deal of time to just have the client remove the functionality/use case. Its frustrating, but I have to agree with you :
“it’s ok if your API is good and the code underneath it sucks”

If your API is great or half decent, when the need to refactor comes into play, its not as painful. This is one thing I’ve learn over the years, and boy it has saved me alot of headaches.

Your post has me looking more into Scum development.

Comment on Agile Chronicles #12: Technical Debt by Andreas Rønning

Andreas Rønning — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:35:53 +0000

Thank you for this post. I recently went through a project the aftermath of which essentially shook me to my core, and this article establishes a language I can use to analyze that situation and better understand why it happened.

One of the best dev-related articles I’ve read all year. Brilliant.

Comment on Consulting Chronicles #4: Qualifying Leads by rob

rob — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:13:21 +0000

@Robert, I agree on the not all flex developers are good at flash. I actually work with a flash designer that will ask me to come over and code him little things like mouse overs, dynamic tweens , etc every once in a while. Even though I consider myself a Flex expert, that doesn’t mean I could build an entire site in timeline view….. but I could proabably write it from scratch in actionscript just using the first couple frames.

Comment on Consulting Chronicles #4: Qualifying Leads by Erin

Erin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:40:54 +0000

My danger keyword is “just” as in ‘I just want…’ or ‘You just need to …’.

This almost always means the client does not really know what they want or how much it should cost.

Great post.

Erin

Comment on Consulting Chronicles #4: Qualifying Leads by Samuel Asher Rivello

Samuel Asher Rivello — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:32:17 +0000

Fantastic read. Your fearless merger of personal and professional personaes is admirable.

-Sam
sam [at] RivelloMultimediaConsulting [dot] com
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