http://notkeepingitreal.com/articles/2007/11/04/eric-hodel-maximizing-productivity en-us 40 <p>I was having it out with my wife on the telephone for the beginning of this talk.</p> <p>Main points:</p> <ul> <li>Test</li> <li><span class="caps">KISS</span>/YAGNI</li> <li>Do what you want</li> <li>Hack often</li> <li>Automate</li> <li>Eliminate pain</li> <li>Have fun</li> </ul> <p>Don&#8217;t burn out. Use autotest. Learn new things at conferences. Do pair programming. In fact, I&#8217;ve done gang-bang programming, where one guy is typing with the computer projected and a bunch of other backseat drivers are yelling out code. The guy is only allowed to type what someone else says.</p> <p>Q/A time:</p> <ul> <li>Person with question: So it seems like a lot of people use the ruby mailing list to submit patches rather than using the tracking system. <span class="caps">WTF</span>?</li> <li>Hodel: Yeah, I don&#8217;t know. Matz?</li> <li>Matz: I like email</li> <li>Hodel: There you go, Matz uses email as his tracking system</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Person with question: What&#8217;s your editor of choice?</li> <li>Hodel: Vim [that&#8217;s right]</li> </ul> Sun, 04 Nov 2007 08:30:00 -0700 urn:uuid:789c6490-7c88-4c60-b69a-30886f22633a Kevin http://notkeepingitreal.com/articles/2007/11/04/eric-hodel-maximizing-productivity Rubyconf http://notkeepingitreal.com/articles/trackback/1861