Comments on: Is it simple enough? http://blog.apokalyptik.com/2008/05/23/is-it-simple-enough/ The random things that spew forth from my brain... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:22:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha hourly 1 By: jenz http://blog.apokalyptik.com/2008/05/23/is-it-simple-enough/comment-page-1/#comment-7822 jenz Sat, 24 May 2008 16:45:59 +0000 http://blog.apokalyptik.com/?p=289#comment-7822 I became totally fed up with complex solutions after literally spending 60%-80% of my time working on fixing the work arounds for the work arounds that were needed for the overly complex "solution". The solution was so complex, it ended up not working for anyone and by the time the developers flew the coop - no one could even follow what was going on in the original code (hence the work arounds) ;) Simple. Documented. Standards - that is my motto now. I became totally fed up with complex solutions after literally spending 60%-80% of my time working on fixing the work arounds for the work arounds that were needed for the overly complex “solution”. The solution was so complex, it ended up not working for anyone and by the time the developers flew the coop – no one could even follow what was going on in the original code (hence the work arounds) ;)

Simple. Documented. Standards – that is my motto now.

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