Comments on: Be Careful of Your Passion http://elegantcode.com/2008/02/27/be-careful-of-your-passion/ Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:16:58 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Erwin Lee http://elegantcode.com/2008/02/27/be-careful-of-your-passion/comment-page-1/#comment-18006 Erwin Lee Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:38:55 +0000 http://elegantcode.com/2008/02/27/be-careful-of-your-passion/#comment-18006 I think this post is very educational for me. Thanks! I think this post is very educational for me. Thanks!

]]> By: arik181 http://elegantcode.com/2008/02/27/be-careful-of-your-passion/comment-page-1/#comment-17975 arik181 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:45:13 +0000 http://elegantcode.com/2008/02/27/be-careful-of-your-passion/#comment-17975 Great post. Thanks. Great post. Thanks.

]]> By: Chris http://elegantcode.com/2008/02/27/be-careful-of-your-passion/comment-page-1/#comment-17934 Chris Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:45:27 +0000 http://elegantcode.com/2008/02/27/be-careful-of-your-passion/#comment-17934 David I agree with you the problem is, these other developers that are reading the Gang of Four in bed at night are so blinded by the new stuff, they over use it when a concrete implementation will do the job. I have seen it time and time again where, people use design patterns just to use them and get no benefit besides the, I used a design pattern. Yes people may have fun with doing this but does this really make better software or does it just make a maintenance nightmare? David
I agree with you the problem is, these other developers that are reading the Gang of Four in bed at night are so blinded by the new stuff, they over use it when a concrete implementation will do the job.

I have seen it time and time again where, people use design patterns just to use them and get no benefit besides the, I used a design pattern. Yes people may have fun with doing this but does this really make better software or does it just make a maintenance nightmare?

]]> By: Reflective Perspective - Chris Alcock » The Morning Brew #42 http://elegantcode.com/2008/02/27/be-careful-of-your-passion/comment-page-1/#comment-17906 Reflective Perspective - Chris Alcock » The Morning Brew #42 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:21:54 +0000 http://elegantcode.com/2008/02/27/be-careful-of-your-passion/#comment-17906 [...] Be Careful of Your Passion - David Starr talks about the dangers of getting carried away when writing the bits of an application that you find most interesting. [...] [...] Be Careful of Your Passion – David Starr talks about the dangers of getting carried away when writing the bits of an application that you find most interesting. [...]

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