http://drunkandretired.com/2005/06/01/good-enough-software-or-software-for-the-new-hacker-culture/ Est. 2000 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:59:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://drunkandretired.com/2005/06/01/good-enough-software-or-software-for-the-new-hacker-culture/#comment-2083 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:00:21 +0000 http://www.drunkandretired.com/wordpress/2005/06/01/good-enough-software-or-software-for-the-new-hacker-culture/#comment-2083 [...] This is one of my top 3 dead horses in Agile and Software Development. I’ve labeld the train of thought “The MBA Programmer” and “Good Enough Software Development” both of which are pretty lame, though I like the second. In fact, it’s one of the main topics Charles and I started off the DrunkAndRetired.com podcast with two years ago. [...]

]]> http://drunkandretired.com/2005/06/01/good-enough-software-or-software-for-the-new-hacker-culture/#comment-2082 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:03:30 +0000 http://www.drunkandretired.com/wordpress/2005/06/01/good-enough-software-or-software-for-the-new-hacker-culture/#comment-2082 [...] In the end, the point of having a platform is allowing others to add value to your software by integrating in their own code and ideas. More specifically, 3rd parties can add value that you don’t have time to add. The customer sees the platform as a whole rather than what company X or Y produces. So, from that perspective, as the platform provider, you can be at the core of that value. For this effect, however, the ecosystem around that platform needs momentum and scale. The biggest community wins. [...]

]]> http://drunkandretired.com/2005/06/01/good-enough-software-or-software-for-the-new-hacker-culture/#comment-2085 Sat, 13 Jan 2007 15:34:57 +0000 http://www.drunkandretired.com/wordpress/2005/06/01/good-enough-software-or-software-for-the-new-hacker-culture/#comment-2085 [...] Good Enough Software, or, Software for the New Hacker Culture | Cote’s Weblog (tags: mashup GoodEnough) [...]

]]> http://drunkandretired.com/2005/06/01/good-enough-software-or-software-for-the-new-hacker-culture/#comment-2084 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 23:46:52 +0000 http://www.drunkandretired.com/wordpress/2005/06/01/good-enough-software-or-software-for-the-new-hacker-culture/#comment-2084 [...] While DOM hacking may be fine and dandy if the system is kept simple enough and said hackers are skilled enough, it does require a human, namely, the hacker. Further, the sort of mashing together that you’d like to see users start to do won’t work out so well if DOM hacking is required: hence the term “users.” While I’d like to see the web app users of the world skilled in futzing around with the raw goods of a web page, I don’t think it’ll happen anytime soon. [...]

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