Sunday, March 03, 2013

Not mentioned: Hey, write your own damn code instead of copy-pasting everything.

Getting Crafty: Why Coders Should Try Quilting and Origami
“We’re treating software development as a craft, and I tend to think of the term ‘craft’ as an intersection of art and science,” says Heroku co-founder Adam Wiggins. “The crafting stations are representation of that.”
Well, that's all nice, but how do you convince developers on deadline that the best practice is to write your code from scratch instead of, let's say borrow, previously written code that seems to work alright?

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