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Rails Conference Keynote by DHH

] http://www.justin.tv/confreaks/b/522089408 - [66:00] David Heinemeier Hansson(DHH) Creator of Ruby on Rails and partner at Basecamp. Part 1 of 2 of keynote, *VIDEO does not start until 11:00 minute mark, part 2 of
] http://www.justin.tv/confreaks/b/522101045 - part 2
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] got started late in programming (20's), after starting 3 years later, rails was built
] tried to learn programming as a kid several times, gave up b/c it was 'too hard', it was hard
] math was not a strong suit for him, english was
] realization that he was not a programmer, ala Linus Torvalds
] realization that he (like many) was a builder of information systems, not likely to ever be a programmer
] programming, computer science is the holy grail
] programming as truth, hard fact UNLIKE 17th century french poetry which is open to 1000 different interpretations
] BUT programming is often subject to interpretation, EXAMPLE of trying to understand someone elses code
] law of demeter - pseudoscience - collection of beliefs where people believe they are doing science but they are not actually doing science
] compares to 'diet science'
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] lots of people willing to tell you 'what' to do,
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] TDD - worst of all
] tests first, TD design, felt like what i was supposed to do, write all tests first then write code,
] dirty code looked better
[40:00] code examples
] gospel of TDD is that anything that is 'easier to test', is better, IF you cant test it easily ...
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