bugless!!!

For the first time in at least two months, the project that’s keeping me out of blogread/writing is bugless… I reckon a new wave will hit soon, but at least I can take a breath and blog a “heartbeat”.

Among the lessons learned in this period: managing self-expectations, how difficult is to KISS, coding is a good martial art and can teach you a lot (but details and bugs are still über-annoying, and you don’t get fit in the end), proper QA requires a lot of resources,

Other patterns that I’m currently trying to merge with my style include: behaviour driven approach (or design aestethics), scalable/trackable/atomic actions (or structural aestethics) and functional aestethics.

In case of development, these concepts map to, among others: rspec, capistrano, unobtrusive javascript

oh and agile, of course. It’s always nice to embrace agile things… make you feel lighter, slimmer, cooler. So for you agile-wannabes, here’s a video with an interesting intro quote:

In this presentation, we discuss how to keep that productivity while reducing the risk that chaos often brings. We examine key agile practices, that when applied judiciously to Ruby, retain the amazing productivity, improve the quality of the code, and still let the programmers have fun