Rafe kicks off a series detailing various aspects of his coding philosophy. The first is near and dear to my heart: less code
This was a really great lesscode.org piece by Aristotle. The follow-up discussion in the comments was superb as well. Being in the middle of everything really warped my view of what was going on back then, I think.
chromatic on million-line Java programs: "I can only imagine how much larger the Java code would be without all of those XML files."
"What if closures and meta-programming and expressive type systems and annotations and all of the other tools that give us the power to build powerful abstractions actually don’t scale to larger teams?"
This is a scary description of a small chunk of my tech career: "In a previous life, I helped develop ESBs. I’ve written about them and I’ve promoted them. But somewhere along the way, I lost the religion."
"I'm not really much into evangelizing Ruby and Rails much nowadays. You know, since we won, I have to admit that it became boring and besides the point." :)
"We're not trying to bend Ruby on Rails to fit the enterprise, we're encouraging enterprises to bend to Ruby on Rails," he said. "Come if you like it, stay away if you don't."
"I would rather take an easily modifiable, open platform that I can make do what I need in a specific environment."
We won on my birthday :)
"Then they spend one day debugging shit that's gone wrong with Eclipse (or its mangling of the CVS repository, or some ant dependency problem, or)... And meanwhile they whine that 256 megs of RAM isn't enough to edit a fucking text file (and do NOTHING el
w00t! lesscode bringing in the tail....