Pragmatic Software Development Tips
Pragmatic Software Development Tips Care About Your Craft Why spend your life developing software unless you care about doing it well? Provide Options, Don’t Make Lame Excuses Instead of excuses, provide options. Don’t say it can’t be done; explain what can be done. Be a Catalyst for Change You can’t force change on people. Instead, show them how the future might be and help them participate in creating it. Make Quality a Requirements Issue Involve your users in determining the project’s real quality requirements. Critically Analyze What You Read and Hear Don’t be swayed by vendors, media hype, or dogma. Analyze information in terms of you and your project. DRY —Don’t Repeat Yourself Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system. Eliminate Effects Between Unrelated Things Design components that are self-contained, independent, and have a single, well-defined purpose. Use Tracer Bullets to Find the Target Tracer bullets let you ho...