Dogma driven development. Ed Gibbs on Agile as a dogma: “And I thought the principal was responding a change over following a plan.”
Look and feel. Robby Russell: “When you’re working with on a new project, do you focus on interface or code implementation first?”
Build your own Google. Rcrawl: a Web crawler for Ruby. Uses ScrAPI to extract data from the page. Now, add Starfish to MapReduce in Ruby, and Ferret for full text searches, and you’re a few server farms away from running your own Google.
Don’t take it literally. According to Steve Yegge, Java’s biggest failing “is its lack of syntax for literal data objects.” Don’t believe Steve? It’s a long post but reads quickly and worth your time, because Steve uses literals to explain a lot of different language design choices, why some work for your and others work against you.
Quotes for Cube Dwellers. But corner office workers are not spared.