I missed one earlier
today, one of my “favorites”:
Design by Metaphor
When discussing a design or requirement, instead of using
concrete examples, people use metaphors. The discussion goes on for
quite sometime, and the metaphor takes over. People begin arguing
about aspects of the design in terms of the metaphor instead of the
actual system, often forgetting about the real code.
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Here’re two patterns of doing design that I’ve noticed recently:
Design by Exhaustion
Two or more people debate furiously about the best
way to design something. One of them gets tired of discussing the design
and simply gives up. The one who can hold out the longest wins!
Requirements by Siege
At higher levels in an organization, when
deciding on requirements or […]
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I got approved for Google AdSense in my RSS feed. So, I enabled it: we’ll see what it looks like.
Sorry if you don’t like ads: I like money (“that’s why they call it ‘money’”), even spare-change.
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In Episode 05 we talk about IDE’s, DSL’s, more code crap, and have plenty of refreshingly brillent banter. It’s what you’ve come to expect from the Coté & Charles DrunkAndRetired.com podcast.
Next week, we finally get back to discussing web applications with special (and future?) guest Zane.
This episode was edited by Mr. Charles Lowell.
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One of the sales guys used an interesting phrase on his weblog today: “feature/function dog fight.” Clearly, that’s the more militant-metaphor version of the phrase “bake-off.”
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