Eli Robillard's World of Blog.

I learned a life lesson from drum teacher Pierre Beluse at a gathering of Canadian Youth Orchestras back in 1988. It was during a lesson on snare drum technique. I was good, my skills were at a peak. Like most things, being at a peak meant that to go any higher I needed to be knocked down to where I could try for a higher peak. Good teachers are like sherpa guides that way.

Last Week: The Lazy Programmer (1LF, 2LF, 3LF, 4LF)

Tim Marman shared a terrific story about using Lazy Programming to overcome workflow bottlenecks:

Mike Harsh is a Microsoft WinForms PM with a new blog. He also quietly released the nifty RegionMaster controls complete with source overnight.

"TouchGraph provides a hands-on way to visualize networks of interrelated information."

Regular readers of Joel on Software will know that Joel posted a terrific article on Building Communities with Software. He built a simple moderated Forum app that removes barriers to posting (like registration). His article describes the rationale behind every step of the the design, and for an online forum intended to provide software support, it is a good model. As a community-builder, I'm not so sure. But that's fodder for another day.

I am still finding prior references to lazy programming, each with a slightly different and useful perspective to add. The most interesting part for me is that several people have come up with roughly the same idea independently and put it into similar words.