Dang, talk about a Bass Buzz!
ETA: They were probably all amped up!
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I still forget once in awhile that we lost Bowie (and Lou Reed for that matter), and I get bummed out all over again for a bit.
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Well that blows!
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I know it says guitar but it feels equally applicable to bass. Other than impressing someone. The only who’s going to care if a bass player tries to impress someone is another bass player.
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Its like typing when someone is standing over your shoulder.
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I had to think about “peer programming” immediately. This was THE hot sh#t in agile development some time ago, and a friend of mine is the evangelist for that at Volkswagen. I was never convinced, exactly cause of the “typing when someone is standing over your shoulder” effect.
Now, a few years after we had an emotional conversation about it, the Volkswagen software failed miserably and they have spent billions €€€ for nothing.
My learning: they should have tried to make a cover and post it at BassBuzz before deciding to go for peer programming 
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I always remember it as extreme programming (Kent Beck). Always made me think of “extreme ironing.” (And probably about as useful)
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It is extreme: two good developers do the same job as one really sh#tty developer would do ^^
Had to google “extreme ironing” … and I think I found a new hobby. Already have some ideas how to mod ironing boards!
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For me, the hardcore Agile trend was just another fad to see sail by. Now it’s more of a management buzzword than anything. It did accomplish its main goal though, which was to move beyond fixed waterfall processes in the places still clinging to that BS. And things like sprints and iterative development are actually a very good model if not taken to extremes.
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Agile works for the areas it was developed for. Software development is a great fit. I’m on the operations side of the house, there are plenty of projects that I prefer waterfall methodology over agile. What bugs me is trying to round hole / square peg projects into the wrong one because some C suite wants to look cool to their bros. Also, I’ve got a lot of words about Jira that I can’t share here because I lack the vocabulary to express my feelings without using the language I learned as a sailor.
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Though Jira is often the only way to get an agile project under control and documented…
Yeah totally. For some reason upper management at lots of companies have glommed on to it as a term but typically just use it to mean whatever is top of mind for them that day.
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Jira’s fine if you only use it for its original purpose (literally just use its bug database for issue tracking). That said I am glad to be on better bug tracking systems now that don’t try and prescribe workflow…
We don’t have anyone proficient with Apache at my agency so I had to learn it when we stood up our Jira instance. I’m the only SysAdmin that can run it for us. My issue has more to do with the software itself and Atlassian. It’s a bunch of open source technologies that they’ve duct tape and chewing gummed together. By far the most zero days of any software we maintain.
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It’s one of those things that when it was small and when they were new it was fine, but it’s evolved in to this big ball of bullshit.
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That would be a C# instead of a Db. 
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