Start writing productive code

I read this awesome post today (http://jhovgaard.net/how-i-stopped-writing-awesome-code) that really hits the nail on the head.

I have several times over the last 10 years experienced developers (my self included) falling into the trap, where new technologies is like a drug for developers "if it's new it should be used !!". I actually heard several times from our development team, that they thought we where falling behind in their skill level, because we where not implementing and using the new technologies and methodologies.

My best practice today is following the mantra "speed to market", by trying to deliver things as fast as possible and accepting bugs as a part of the development. Of course this can be frustrating at times, but whenever a bug is discovered our product is improved so it actually means that the number of bugs found equals a increased product value. And when a bug is found, that is system wide, we have built helpers to handle this. This means that we are not focusing on doing a lot of unit testing code for "what-if-scenarios", but instead evolving and improving our products instead of improving test-code.

We do however stumble upon cases where it would have been nice to be able to extend a base functionality without having to re-write 10 classes, but in real life it's not that hard to add additional functionality later to 10 classes, it just requires ten extra Ctrl-V commands.

And in my development history (15 years) whenever I tried to abstract functionality into a Interface structure, because I could foresee that down the line it could/would require changes. It actually always turned out that the changes required later was so extensive that a complete re-write would be faster and easier.