The Selfish Programmer

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+ kamaelian 1 month ago
Regarding the slide 'Selfish' - slide 9 - this doesn’t really convey the point as well as I’d like. The point I was making was that it’s more a matter that contributing code back can be a selfish act which benefits everyone. By contributing back, sure you’re making the system better for everyone, but also by contributing back you’re actually making your own life easier. You’ve solved a problem, and by passing it back, you no longer need to re-integrate your fix with every new release that is made.

The Selfish Programmer EBU Open Source Workshop Michael Sparks Senior Research Engineer BBC Research http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/
Care Open source software is created when someone cares about a problem enough to do something about it. Michael Sparks, http://kamaelia.sf.net/
Share Open source is created when someone shares their solution to a problem in a way that allows others to solve more problems. Michael Sparks, http://kamaelia.sf.net/
Give By giving back code patches you gain better code. By giving back documentation you get better software. Michael Sparks, http://kamaelia.sf.net/
Selfish We want to solve the problem easily We want to lighten the load, for all We give and in turn receive Michael Sparks, http://kamaelia.sf.net/
Teach We're teaching the software to be more useful. It stays adaptable to us, adaptable by us. Software parts, not upgrades Michael Sparks, http://kamaelia.sf.net/
(video) Michael Sparks, http://kamaelia.sf.net/
Be Selfish Take the code, see if it works for you, what have you got to lose? Michael Sparks, http://kamaelia.sf.net/

+ kamaelian, 3 years ago