The Duct Tape Programmer

Nice article from Joel Spolsky.

My Summary:

1. Duct tape programmers are pragmatic. They know that shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it. :-)

2. It’s great to rewrite your code and make it cleaner and by the third time it’ll actually be pretty. But that’s not the point—you’re not here to write code; you’re here to ship products.

3. "One principle duct tape programmers understand well is that any kind of coding technique that's even slightly complicated is going to doom your project."

4. If there’s no unit test the customer isn’t going to complain about that.

5. One principle duct tape programmers understand well is that any kind of coding technique that’s even slightly complicated is going to doom your project.

6. Duct tape programmers have to have a lot of talent to pull off this shtick. They have to be good enough programmers to ship code, and we’ll forgive them if they never write a unit test, or if they xor the “next” and “prev” pointers of their linked list into a single DWORD to save 32 bits, because they’re pretty enough, and smart enough, to pull it off.

Its not necessary to apply everything mentioned in the article in letter and spirit. But you get the point.

Welcome 2007 !!!

So, 2006 ends ....
It was a great year filled with wonderful achievements for me like Becoming our departmental Organization QUASAR coordinator, the mesmerizing days of final semester, Joining in Persistent, training days, and Finally project in PSPL. Soooo wonderful !!!! I think, it was the best year so far for me.
Now, its time to look forward to 2007. I guess 2007 will also be a productive year too.

'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin Killed'

When I was just browsing on the net, I read this shoking news.
Let's just have a brief look at his life :
Steve was an Australian naturalist, wildlife expert and television personality. He was best known for the television program The Crocodile Hunter, an unconventional wildlife documentary series which he hosted with his wife Terri Irwin that was broadcast worldwide. He also owned and operated the Australia Zoo at Beerwah in Queensland with friend William Rollo and his wife. He died after being stung directly in the heart by a stingray while filming a documentary segment for his daughter's show.