One of the reasons I’ve been such a proponent of people at my current job reading Getting Real is that it describes the way I’ve approached development ever since I got started in the field. Now, mind you, I’m not a “classically trained” developer. As such, I just went with the way of doing things that made the most sense. Silly me. While the number of programmers doing things in a manner that makes sense is growing every day, we, members of the so-called agile development crowd, are still decidedly counterculture in the corporate world.
Anyway, some events occurred this week that made me feel a retrospective of one such development project was in order.
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I'm Ernie Miller. But then, you probably knew that by looking at the page title, or the URL. I'm a Ruby programmer in Louisville, Kentucky. This blog used to be called "metautonomo.us", which I thought was kind of clever, but nobody, including me, could type it. Lesson learned.