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My apologies, not intending to "troll" .... more making a silly joke :)

I don't mean to imply they are the same.

I'm reflecting on how the same "agile experts that sell/sold their services" quickly abandoned selling that and moved onto selling "craftsmanship" once their Agile well dried up.

cough Bob Martin cough cough Object Mentor cough

The only people that screwed it up are the ones that monetized it. They made it

a) rigid based on their definition b) defined themselves as experts in making teams agile based on their rigid definition c) charged for it

PS. These same guys, once they couldn't squeeze anymore blood out of the Agile stone, moved onto a new marketing term, "craftsmanship". They now charge the same clients, even more money, to teach them this "new way of doing it ..... right".

Plus, they make a mint on the books they hastily write and push out.

I eagerly anticipate that successor to Craftsmanship.

I'm guessing you did > rails new appname

no?

I signed up just to see who gets picked and, if I like what they have to say, etc.

I know who I know. Finding people who I don't know, that might be interesting, is becoming difficult.

Honestly, this protects them more then anybody else. If this "behavior" became norm for employers, people would begin simply deleting their Facebook accounts in droves.

Facebook is valuable, but not "that" valuable where people would sacrifice a potential job opportunity in favor of keeping their Facebook profile.

That being said, I do like that Facebook has weighed in and it favors an individuals right to privacy.

I don't understand the "as a man" part. That's further propagating the problem.

I'd rather we point out "sexist behavior" to help make it stop vs introduce an even more subtler sexist behavior

In your senario: You, as a man, aware that she as a women, can get treated differently, so you will then treat her differently based on that.

You see, you are still treating her differently, where ultimately, no one treats her differently.

Reminds me of this quote from Morgan Freeman in an interview

Wallace: Black History Month you find...

Freeman: Ridiculous.

Wallace: Why?

Freeman: You're going to relegate my history to a month?

Wallace: Oh, come on...

Freeman: What do you do with yours? Which month is White History Month?

Wallace: Well...

Freeman: Come on, tell me.

Wallace: I'm Jewish.

Freeman: OK. Which month is Jewish History Month?

Wallace: There isn't one.

Freeman: Oh. Oh. Why not? Do you want one?

Wallace: No. No.

Freeman: Alright. I don't either. I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

Wallace: How are we going to get rid of racism...?

Freeman: Stop talking about it. I'm going to stop calling you a white man. And I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I know you as Mike Wallace. You know me as Morgan Freeman.

If your code has been "running without a hitch" and "an old project" (which I assume means you are no longer actively updating it) why are you adding tests?

Out of curiosity, what's the ROI that you see in adding tests to that project?

Now, I need something as good as this for New Relic :)

LOVE IT!

I just submitted a talk on this very same notion, "all of this has happened before, and all of this is happening again", in regards to the rebirth of client/server.

It's in both mobile apps, browser based JS app, etc.

My talk was rejected. PUNKS!

I love how the link to examples for, "the upside of this approach", is his own book.

Now, put that aside, I do agree :)

Doesn't RSS already do this for you?

yes. If you in theory pick the "best of the best" you expect .... the "best". that include the visual packaging and presentation of the companies products / services.

Isn't the addictive way to browse pictures on reddit, reddit?

18 dollars a ticket? Where is he paying that? I just saw a flick in San Francisco and it didn't cost that much. Is this a NYC thing?

Bob Martin couldn't get enough corporate gigs selling his Agile snake-oil so he invested "Craftsmanship".

Just wait, once Craftsmanship runs it's course he will have a new "methodology" hell tell you about, for a fee.

Isn't this a sign that "agile" as he is defining it simply isn't working?

More importantly, why is this a bad thing? We don't really think that this process was "the" process that would stick for the next hundred years, did we?

Buggy as all hell. Clicking on average takes two to get the UI to respond, the iOS transitions are awful and momentum scrolling is really bugged. No way you could use this on a proaction app.

Did RWW even try it out before they wrote about it?

A lot of people said, "we don't need yet another company making mobile phones" at the launch of the iPhone.

It's also tough to characterize what is a "good example" vs a "bad example" per the broad descriptions.

For example, if I release "yet another testing framework" and it helps some healthcare app get released a day sooner and, in that day saves a life. Worth it.

Frak it, I'll move in.

Beware what you put in any medium that can be retransmitted without your permissions :)

I couldn't agree more

I juggle two companies and refuse to give up family / wife time.

I do this. In all honesty, it is tough but not insane / impossible. I'm usually home @ 6:00 pm and with my daughter until she goes to bed at eight. I spend two hours with my wife until she goes to bed usually around 10. After that, rather than play video games, watch tv, etc, I work on a side business until one or two am in the morning.

I'm lucky in that my whole life I've been good with really only needing 5-6 hours of sleep a night so, when my daughter wakes up at 7:30 and I go get her out of the crib I'm usually good to go.

So, it's really a matter of prioritization. I play a video game once in a long while, read books slower than I used to, never really watch tv (but parenthood also removed that possibility) and I have the time.

Customers and customer support are where it gets tricky as you will be juggling two companies that operate 9-5. In that scenario I more often than not give up my lunch hour at job 1 to work on job 2.

Not saying it's perfect however, if you want it, it's there for the taking.