I was just speaking with a coworker about JEP. In the course of our conversation I realized that in my list of the foundations of JEP, I had left off what is perhaps the most important one of all — Pragmatism. If I were to sum up and explain JEP in one word it would …
Category Archive: Computers
Aug 14
Quotes on Simplicity
“If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments where one suffices.” — Thomas Aquinas “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” — Leonardo DaVinci A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected …
Aug 14
Foundations of Just Enough Programming
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. — Hans Hoffmann A little while ago I’d come up with the following as a semi-serious description of Just Enough Programming: Are you tired of over architected applications? Does infinite scalability imply infinite development time? Are you surrounded by applications …
Aug 13
The trouble with injection
Ruby’s injection is very useful, but if you don’t remember one key fact, you’ll shoot yourself in the foot.
Aug 12
O_RLY? A Ruby/Rails implementation of snowl (Part I)
Recently Mozilla Labs released a prototype of snowl, a rss/atom/twitter feed reader. It is a firefox plugin and provides two views of messages — a “traditional” message view, as well as a “river of news“. I thought that this could be easily “redone” as a rails application. The rest of this article steps through the …
Aug 09
Just Enough Programming
I’ve been giving a lot of thought over the past months to the idea of “Just Enough Programming”. Agile manufacturing has led to Just In Time manufacturing. We also have Just In Time compilers. But I’ve seen far too many times where application architectures have been far too complex — where things are done, not …
