The third chapter of "Dream Break Code" summary

The 8th chapter is very admire the writing standard person, you must use 5 years for the measurement standard eye to see the question. It takes 5 years to get the things you really want to be useful. This is the case with WebDAV, which is quite comprehensive in Mac, but incomplete in Windows. It also said that 37Signals, a small team focused on AJAX Web applications, has also been successful. Using the sticker method to discuss each iteration of the project should have functional characteristics, but also in the agile development focused on the promotion, very effective.

9th. The success of the IBM enforcement discipline is based on two principles: 1) The plan is mandatory 2) the plan must be realistic----"bottom-up", based on the experience and knowledge of programmers who are responsible for implementing the plan, rather than "top-down", relying on managers to shoot their heads or market expectations. CMM this heavy software development maturity model in the domestic completely changed taste, had watched a software company in order to pass CMM4, compiled a pile of thick documents that never looked at, CMM really only heavy process, and domestic more this process is a mere formality, through the CMM, only to the user to raise the price. TSP, PSP has also seen, feeling quite cumbersome, in the domestic are difficult to implement. In 2001, 17 leading figures presented the manifesto for Agile Software Development, declaring war on the unwieldy CMM, which became popular from XP and scrum. Google lets developers spend one-fifth of their time on personal projects. This kind of management way in the domestic want to dare not think.

The 10th chapter Squeak one kind for the children custom Samlltalk the newest open source realization, lets the children early contact programming in the end good? is programming a project or a literature? Is it science or art? The book, written by Gartner, called computer programming art, when he received the Turing Award in 1984, said, "computer programming is the art of art." It took him ten years to write the art of computer programming, and it took nearly 10 years to write the Tex and Metafont program. He claims that writing software is "much harder" than writing a book.

The 11th chapter eats your own dog food, which really helps improve software quality and user experience. McCarthy, in essence, describes Lisp in the name of Lisp, and has time to look at the top of this famous Lisp, which is said to be as difficult to learn as Haskell.

The third chapter of "Dream Break Code" summary