Fun-Driven Development
Keep It Smart and Stupid!
Marco Cecconi @sklivvz
Stack Overflow
I wrote a 2 million lines of code enterprise application and it was a ton of fun!
-- No One, Ever
I wrote a 2 million lines of code enterprise application and, with MicroServices™ and React™ it was a ton of fun!
-- Apparently a bunch of people, 2016
I deployed a top 30 web site to 500,000 browser tabs without running tests. It was fun!
-- Me, yesterday
SNXRPBQR
(the previous code was fake)
https://hubot.github.com/
Our code sucks
The word "sucks" appears 108 times in our codebase.
(most of these times it's probably correct)
private IDbConnection ownedConnection; // LINQ-to-SQL sucks; Our code sucks
The word "shit" appears 108 times in our codebase.
(most of these times it's used in the context "shit gets ill", meaning stuff is broken)
// yeah, this is really shitty code - someone else needs to refactor it for meOur code sucks
The word "f**k" appears 67 times in our codebase.
(not literally "f**k")
/// DON'T FUCKING CALL THIS UNLESS YOU'VE SPOKEN TO MULTIPLE DEVS// The database is down, fuck it// All others shall fuck offSome more important statistics
I dumped all our 100k commit messages in a database
Swearing by type
Our swearing is increasing
Our WTFs/minute are constant!
90% of all community feedback is crap.
-- Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror)
...that's 0.3% of our questions
- Jon Skeet can divide by zero.
- Jon Skeet once answered one of my questions 42 seconds before I asked it.
- Anonymous methods and anonymous types are really all called Jon Skeet.
- They just don't like to boast.
- (btw the above is an answer by... Jon Skeet)
- With 821 upvotes
HTML and Regex
https://unicornify.appspot.com/making-of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
April 1st, 2016 is in 3 weeks
Just sayin'
...and now the conclusion
Orange makes you happy!
High growth makes you wear orange!
Happy developers are productive developers
(just like hens)
ERNYPBQR
Hope you are awake...
Thank you!
Marco Cecconi @sklivvz
Stack Overflow
Fun Driven Development @ SFI
By Marco Cecconi
Fun Driven Development @ SFI
Keep It Smart and Stupid!
