Entries tagged with software development

Current Mood: amused

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Gödel wikis Goats, I have proof.

"I'm a big believer in the have-a-donut school of management."

Why corporate wikis work, or fail.

"We live in a universe where life is meaningless, oblivion is just around the corner and God is confirmed to be dead"

One of the best explanations of Gödel's incompleteness theorem I've seen. And it's only there to explain a "Citation Needed" visual gag.

Both quotes from today's Goats.

Bonus points to anyone who can spot the mangled pop culture reference in the title

Current Mood: cynical

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Anti-patterns

There was a bit of a Anti-Patterns discussion at work today. The article is a big list of bad software development practices, with amusing names. Like "Continuous obsolescence", "God object", and "Reinventing the square wheel". The conversation was of the "How many of these do we do?" sort.

The polar opposite of which is The Joel Test. A list of good practices for a software house. I won't tell you what we scored, but we probably hit a higher percentage of the anti-practices.