http://lostechies.com/joeocampo/2008/01/12/dog-cat-developer-developer/ Tales from the field... Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://lostechies.com/joeocampo/2008/01/12/dog-cat-developer-developer/#comment-336 Joe Reddy Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:22:50 +0000 /blogs/joe_ocampo/archive/2008/01/12/dog-cat-developer-developer.aspx#comment-336 No Big Design Up Front I often explain how nice it would be to build a new house while you lived in it. We could order pizza, sleep on sleeping bags, etc. It helps illustrate the difference between conventional architecture and engineering versus engineering the common business application. I wrote about this on my own blog last summer in an entry called: "Don’t put carpet in the kid’s bathroom…unless you want mushrooms..." http://swcses.eponym.com/blog/_archives/2007/6/19/3033434.html No Big Design Up Front
I often explain how nice it would be to build a new house while you lived in it. We could order pizza, sleep on sleeping bags, etc. It helps illustrate the difference between conventional architecture and engineering versus engineering the common business application. I wrote about this on my own blog last summer in an entry called:
“Don’t put carpet in the kid’s bathroom…unless you want mushrooms…” http://swcses.eponym.com/blog/_archives/2007/6/19/3033434.html

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