I have been musing over a decent name for my blog for some time now. It has been my favourite go to excuse for not following through with writing any blog topics that have come up.
The conversations in my head usually run along the lines of "i should really blog about my 3G iPhone (they rock by the way, everyone should have one) but really i need a cool name for my blog first". Lame excuse i know but the only person i had to convince was me so it was not really too hard.
Anyway i was in a meeting today at work and my manager Joe made a comment that really resonated with me (bullsh*t bingo phrase i know but the term is still relevant.) About how in our current project life cycle we've gone from XP to Agile to some form of Waterfall back to Agile and then to some hybrid form of a combination of all of these or as it was referred to.... being pragmatic. The phrase seemed to mesh nicely with how I view the world of development so i thought i would reuse it. For example whilst it would be great to use DDD, TDD, CI, pair programming, MVC/MVP on every project that comes up, the reality is that sometimes it just does not make sense to go down that path and use those particular disciplines and part of being a good developer is knowing when that is.
Anyway for me one of the key tenants of being a successful developer is recognising when someone has done something good and stealing it and claiming it as your own.
So cheers Joe I owe you a beer
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