Comments on: There is no right way

By: abby, the hacker chick blog

abby, the hacker chick blog — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:52:41 +0000

@Chris – haha, 5 is even better!

By: Chris Brandsma

Chris Brandsma — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:22:23 +0000

Actually Abby, I would have said 5, but maybe that is stretching things a bit.

@cjhanson, happy to see you here either way.

By: abby, the hacker chick blog

abby, the hacker chick blog — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:36:48 +0000

Thank you!

This notion is also nicely complemented with the Rule of Three that Johanna Rothman talks about:

If you can’t think of at least 3 possible solutions, then you don’t understand the problem.

By: cjhanson

cjhanson — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:03:59 +0000

(immediately after posting, went to the homepage and noticed that is a multiperson blog, and so I hereby redirect the first statement to whoever runs this)

AnnotatePost( postBuffer[ currentIndex - 1 ], “Oops” );

By: cjhanson

cjhanson — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:00:32 +0000

Hey Chris, found your site via PostSharp.org, so far I like it a lot.. I’m big on elegant code.. nice domain =)

I am happy to see this blog because it reinforces one of my core coding philosophies… finding “the least bad idea.”

-Chris

By: Chris Canal

Chris Canal — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:39:45 +0000

The context of your problem is a key consideration whenever making a decision on an aspect of your application and being able to identify what is the better option in a given situation can really make or break a project.

I’ve spoken to many people who stick to the tools they know and never considered that something else might be a better fit and end up paying a price later on.

By: Casey

Casey — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:29:48 +0000

I think even with your caveats, your last paragraph but one is treading dangerous ground …

None of the things you list are definitively better than the thing you preceeded them with, in many cases they are worse significantly … you didn’t apply your own rules and put any context. With context I can state that SQL strings are better than any ORM, and that waterfall is better than Agile. Even with very little context I can justify that TDD is better than BDD.

Context is significant, as is experience of the alternatives.

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