1. Nov 14th, 2006

    Rounded Corners - 62

    Gone in 60 minutes. Dmitri Zimine on how “just two hours” end up costing you two weeks.

    Burn, baby, burn. “Freeware app DRM Dumpster plugs into your iTunes music library, burns protected tracks to CD-RW, then re-imports them to your hard drive.” Just slip a CD-RW and let it do it’s magic for a few hours. Sweet. (Thanks LifeHacker)

    Don’t fight the REST. Here’s a lesson I just read after a week of re-writing and re-writing code. It’s tempting to try and overload a small number of URLs: you have less of them to worry about. But it can be the illusion of simplicity. The URL space is vast enough that it’s better to just let it ride and make up as many as you possibly need.

    Reinvent. Or, if this HTTP stuff gets too confusing, you can always create a new protocol.

    Not legal in the state of California. Mr. Angry: “So how do we escape the consensual hallucination that there is a way to do Project Management that is absolutely foolproof and provides definitive answers? Well, the first step is to kill all the consultants.”

    Or maybe just send them to Niagra, to watch the waterfalls.

    Posted by Assaf Filed in general

    1. Nov 15th, 2006

      engtech

      Joel has responsed to Zimine: http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/15.html

    2. Nov 15th, 2006

      Assaf

      Thanks, good link!

      When I read the first article, I was thinking unplanned interruptions. They’re extremly disruptive, and they always begin with the fallacy of “just …”

      Joel is talking about multi-tasking. Funny thing, multi-tasking is easy if the interruptions are planned. It’s the unplanned one which, no matter what methodology I used, always wasted more time than “just ….”

    3. Nov 15th, 2006

      Mishkin Berteig

      And a response to Joel by yours truly:
      http://www.agileadvice.com/archives/2006/11/the_case_for_co.html

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