See Joel On Software: The Duct Tape Programmer: he lauds the programmer who gets stuff done with "duct tape and WD-40".

Here's why: "Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it."

Dave Drake sent the link along with the following:

This "speaks of coding for …

I've done a fair amount of reverse engineering over the years.

In the early days, you went from code to specification to new code. It took forever and the problems you uncovered -- well -- they often derailed the project.

Recently, I used a TDD-like approach. Each piece of legacy code was …

One of the Agile practices is Continuous Integration.

Fowler suggests that everyone commits every day. In Elssamadisy's book includes specific advice on why a daily check-in helps.

Some folks call this the "Don't Break the Build" practice.

But what does that mean for Python where there is no build? And …