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Posts Tagged ‘hate driven development’

Celebrity HDD

In Commentary on 10 August 2009 tagged hate driven development, software development with 6 comments

I just happened to notice that David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails, learned Ruby through hate driven development. Here’s his answer when asked how he learned Ruby:

I learned Ruby by programming in anger. Attempting to make something real. Not just a toy program.

Hate Driven Development

In Commentary on 14 July 2009 tagged hate driven development with 34 comments

I’ve used the term a few times, and now it’s time to officially coin it: Hate Driven Development. It’s when you come to hate working on something so much that it inspires a surge of productivity that leads to completion. Most projects that involve this methodology include a procrastination phase.