design by committee
In a recent interview [http://www.jnd.org/RecentPressCoverage.html], Don Norman warns of the perils of design by committee: > You don't do good software design by committee. You do it best by having a dictator. From the user's point of view, you must have
software design
Rube Goldberg software design is the meme of the month, after being parodied by Rory Blyth and Scott Hanselman in this brilliant short video, and oddly enough, also currently appearing in Microsoft advertisements: Now compare that to an actual Rube Goldberg device: You can’t talk about Rube Goldberg these
programming languages
OK, the title is just, Why Your Code Sucks, but you know you were thinking it. The article may not be as grammatically (sp) correct as I would like, but it’s got some solid advice. My favorite is rejection of dogma: Your code sucks if it dogmatically conforms to