Duct Tape Programming

Joel Spolsky has hit the mark again with his recent blog posting "The Duct Tape Programmer" - http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html. There are two key quotes "you’re not here to write code; you’re here to ship products" and “Overengineering seems to be a pet peeve of yours.” That's the premise in a nutshell -- quit over-engineering, start shipping. The only thing I fear, and some of the commentary across the net expresses this, that too many will miss his message and instead read Spolsky as justifying sloppy decisions. That's not it at all. Instead, he's taking the experienced, pragmatic approach in which could be best summarized as "just simple enough." A good read, as are his other postings.