PragDave

Mechanism and Policy

What can we do about the tradeoff between flexibility and convenience in interface design? Do users want us to provide just the means to get the job done (the mechanism), or do they want to be told how to do that job (the policy)?

T-Shirts Back Online

A while back we were approached by someone wanting to produce a set of Pragmatic Programmer T-Shirts. (Honest!) The original folks doing this then went out of business (we have that affect on companies), but we just heard that the T-Shirts live on! You can now emblazon your bod with pithy pragmatisms at HackerThreads. My favorite is the new one: My programming job went offshore, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.

Starter Kit on a Phone

David Hansson in Denmark sent me a link showing the PDF version of Pragmatic Version Control on a cell-phone!