{"id":338,"date":"2005-06-28T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2005-06-28T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-28T16:02:00","slug":"words-of-wisdom-not-just-for-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/28\/words-of-wisdom-not-just-for-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Words of Wisdom &#8230; Not Just for Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erich Gamma, one of the software luminaries behind the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0201633612\/billvennersA\/002-3168569-6299235\">Design Patterns<\/a> book and now part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/eclipse.org\">Eclipse Project<\/a>, had the following things to say about software &#8230; that apply to a little more than just software:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artima.com\/lejava\/articles\/eclipse_cultureP.html\">Eclipse&#8217;s Culture of Shipping<\/a>: &#8220;In software, having cool ideas is nice, but shipping them is what counts. For us it only counts if you have shipped the thing. That&#8217;s really the mindset we have. And given that you focus on shipping, we never want to be in a mode of always being two years away from shipping. You need to have a short-term deliverable. You also plan, decide and act with this mindset.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, all artists should probably learn this lesson.  It&#8217;s easy to plan the Great American Novel or the Next Great SF\/Fantasy Trilogy, but in the meantime write some damn stories, paint some paintings, write a webcomic, and get your stuff out there.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erich Gamma, one of the software luminaries behind the Design Patterns book and now part of the Eclipse Project, had the following things to say about software &#8230; that apply&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-development","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}