Comments on Navigating the Maze - Mike Henry: Thoughts on development and life

@Luke How are you enjoying being a daddy? Congrats...

2009-05-11T17:42:00.000-07:00

@Luke How are you enjoying being a daddy? Congrats!

Haha, I can always count on you to preach. One of my top themes is maximizer though, not achiever, so I'd rather do one thing right than five things fast. (Though it would be nice to do five things right and fast.)

The way I work and the way I'm motivated is not the same as everyone else. I still need to get stuff done at the end of the day, but my challenge is finding the groove that works best for me.

Thanks for your thoughts and encouragement.

@Bert Thanks for visiting! I appreciate the encour...

2009-05-11T17:10:00.000-07:00

@Bert Thanks for visiting! I appreciate the encouragement and I'm going to try to blog more consistently - and not just about tech.

Just remember Bill's mantra (which I've also accep...

2009-05-10T20:12:00.000-07:00

Just remember Bill's mantra (which I've also accepted long ago):

One. Point. O.

Everything starts with a 1.0 version. FoxyCart was kind of a mess when we first launched, but two years later we're serving a lot of people well. We didn't refactor the code every chance we got, we just took each new feature request as an opportunity to get something out the door and learn in the process.
No matter how good you get or how many unit tests you right, you'll always look back on it later and wonder what you were thinking. Unit tests can be good, but they are usually only as good as the actual code anyway (since they are little programs as well).
In the end, if your code serves people well, it was successful in its purpose.
Keep going after it Mike, God blesses the diligent.

Hey Mike, first time I checked out your blog and i...

2009-05-10T16:13:00.000-07:00

Hey Mike, first time I checked out your blog and its good. Keep writing although most of what you talk about is out of my league.