Explore popular quotes and sayings by a software developer Ron Jeffries.
Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Ron Jeffries is one of the three founders of the Extreme Programming (XP) software development methodology circa 1996, along with Kent Beck and Ward Cunningham. He was from 1996, an XP coach on the Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System project, which was where XP was invented. He is an author of Extreme Programming Installed, the second book published about XP. He has also written Extreme Programming Adventures in C#. He is one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto.
If there's only one answer, then this must not be a very interesting topic.
Simple, not easy. There's a difference.
The lesson is: Even if you know exactly what is going on in you system, measure performance, don't speculate. You'll learn something, and nine times out of ten, it won't be that you were right!!
When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.
One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again.
The wages of sin is debugging.
Three bloody roles, Scrum has, and only three. If you can’t get that right, don’t call it Scrum, OK?
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
It seems to me to be important to distinguish a good idea from poor implementations of it