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Saturday Jan 04, 2003

Re: False Delima

Comments[0] by Dave in General
Bill de hOra: False Delima. Coding is important. Design is important. They're so important, we should be doing them all the time. And that's very much what programming is, designing while coding. It's a mistake to separate the two.

Bill is commenting on Tom Klaasen's comments on my comments in my post Loving what you do. I guess my post was a bit of a Rorschach test because Tom thought I was talking about programming when in fact I never mentioned the word programming or coding at all. I was talking about software development, which is, as Bill correctly points out, a combination of analysis, design, programming/coding, and other activities.

I have to admit that the idea of a guy who sucks at programming doing analysis and design is a little frightening. I hope Tom is just being self-deprecatingly modest.

Someday...

Comments[0] by Dave in Roller

James Strachan: Using Wikis for documentation in open source projects. One day it'd be nice if open source projects used a combination of wiki and blog for project news, design documents and documentation.

It sure would make the Roller site easier to maintain and easy to add stuff on-the-fly.

Re: Raising the bar

Comments[0] by Dave in General

Now there is a real dad.

Now I'm feeling inadequate. Shown below is my dad activity for the afternoon:

Lego X-Wing

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