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Think first, 'doing' is for later
In the comments section of Ayende's blog, I recently debated the usage of principles like the ones in SOLID and argued that these principles aren't really the important thing to focus on. Instead, people should focus on thinking. In the Netherlands we have an old saying: "Bezint eer ge begint", which translated to English is something like "Think everything through before you start". Now, before I wake up the anti-Waterfall people, I'd like to add that this post isn't about Waterfall at all. Instead, I'd like to line out how I write my software, how thinking is an essential part of every step I take in the whole process and will illustrate it with an example which hopefully will illustrate that some extra time spend on the thought process before writing any code is very valuable.
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Follow-up on the 'Firefox v3.5 fiasco'
(Follow up to: The Firefox 3.5 fiasco)
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The Firefox 3.5 fiasco
(updated: replaced 'trashing' with 'thrashing' as indeed, I meant 'disk thrashing').