Joel Spolsky recently wrote an article about “The Duct Tape Programmer” in which he espouses the benefits of a pragmatic approach to creating (and thus shipping) software. … What interested me about his post … was how approaches to “shipping software” can sometimes differ in large enterprises when compared to shipping commercial software to end-users or to producing applications in small- or medium-sized
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