Every once in a while I come across an example of what NOT to do that's soooo egregiously bad, I just HAVE to point it out. I don't like to do it, because next time it could be me -- the gods know *I* make enough of my own trouble and karma will get me for throwing these rocks, no doubt.
But this one is a classic teaching moment.
The Six Laws of the New Software.
His laws are
- Single-idea
- Collaborate
- Disappear (this refers to interface design)
- Simplify
- Release
- Comply
To read this I had to switch to a different machine that had acrobat on it because
- the default pdf reader on my linux machine wouldn't cope with the display
- this thing is 17 pages of pretty densely packed text.
- in a proprietary format
- using a menu structure to manage page turning
- written by (apparently) one guy
Now I appreciate that he's talking about software development. But the difference between programming computers (writing software) and programming people (writing manifestos) has a lot of parallels.
If you wanna talk the talk, then you gotta walk the walk.
End of today's lesson in what NOT to do.
Oye.
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