We're going crazy with all this service stuff
I heard this statement today and it stopped me in my tracks... It came from a developer who was trying to explain to me why it was a good thing to embed our job postings as static files in our main corporate website. "After all, it only takes 15 minutes to get the new files and deploy the new version of the application" he continued. "After all, how often will they change?" I had to resist the urge to say "sooner than you might think"... At that point I should have realized that perhaps this guy was unreachable . I say that because when I attempted to explain my position he just waved me off and immediately stopped listening and started doodling on his notepad. Upon reflection, a number of problems were evident: I have done a really bad job explaining the value of using reusable components or what a "service" is I have done bad job of explaining why decoupling the content of an application from the code is a good thing I have forgotten that I ...