Comments on: The Accidental, The Essential, and Corporate Earnings http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/40 software architecture & engineering, code hints, sometimes philosophy, photography, life, etc. Sun, 20 Jun 2010 07:51:38 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jason McDonald http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/40/comment-page-1#comment-94 Jason McDonald Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:42:58 +0000 http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/40#comment-94 I believe it was in "No Silver Bullet, Refired" that Brooks noted that he had a large audience outside of the software industry as well. His theory was that this was because of the exact reasons you have just stated - that the accidental and the incidental were facets of life in general instead of ones of just software. The basic premise that I take away, and you support here, is that things that are lucrative, rewarding, and generally worthwhile are rarely going to be easy and there will almost never be a silver bullet. If there were then everyone would be doing it. Also, as for the dynamic code IDEs, IntelliJ 7 supports both Ruby on Rails and Grails and seems to do a pretty good job of it. On top of this IntelliJ 7 is MUCH faster than IntelliJ 6. Jason McDonald www.mcdonaldland.info https://www.cafepress.com/codergear I believe it was in “No Silver Bullet, Refired” that Brooks noted that he had a large audience outside of the software industry as well. His theory was that this was because of the exact reasons you have just stated – that the accidental and the incidental were facets of life in general instead of ones of just software. The basic premise that I take away, and you support here, is that things that are lucrative, rewarding, and generally worthwhile are rarely going to be easy and there will almost never be a silver bullet. If there were then everyone would be doing it.

Also, as for the dynamic code IDEs, IntelliJ 7 supports both Ruby on Rails and Grails and seems to do a pretty good job of it. On top of this IntelliJ 7 is MUCH faster than IntelliJ 6.

Jason McDonald
http://www.mcdonaldland.info
https://www.cafepress.com/codergear

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