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The document discusses strategies for building software quickly by standing on the shoulders of giants and leveraging existing open source projects and libraries. It acknowledges common problems like reinventing the wheel and fear of the unknown that prevent reuse. The author advocates looking for existing solutions that match your needs and problems before writing new code, and shares experiences successfully using existing social networking, e-commerce, and push notification libraries to accelerate development. The overall message is that reuse allows you to ship projects faster with fewer bugs by leveraging the work of others.
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- 2. OVERVIEW •Problems •Strategies for building things quickly •My experiences
- 4. WE NEED TO TALK Building software takes too long. And half the time it’s buggy. Or it doesn’t even solve the problem.
- 5. IT’S NOT JUST YOU, IT’S ME TOO •Not Invented Here (NIH) syndrome •“Unwillingness to value the work of others” •Fear of the unknown •Programming is fun
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- 9. HISTORY •Math: Numbers -> Arithmetic -> Algebra -> Abstract Algebra •Science: Galileo -> Brahe -> Kepler -> Newton •The Avengers: Hulk beats Loki, Iron Man stops the missile, Black Widow deactivates portal
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- 11. ART Good artists copy. Great artists steal.
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- 14. WHAT TO LOOK FOR •Necessity •Level of match •Exact match •Kinda-sorta •Properties •Age •Author •License •Recent Activity
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- 16. RISK MANAGEMENT •Start on a branch •Make the smallest change you can first •Set a timebox
- 17. WHEN BUILDING MAKES SENSE •You need a particular feature that would be at odds with the current philosophy. •The existing maintainer won’t play nicely •It really doesn’t exist •You are the world’s foremost expert in the area
- 18. MY EXPERIENCES
- 19. SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE •Missed opportunity •Could have shipped faster •Could have delivered more •Could have had fewer bugs
- 20. E-COMMERCE SITE •Went with Spree •Could buy a product with a credit card on day one •Immediately better: searching, filtering, product management, reporting •Helped define categories/taxonomy •Clean, easy to extend codebase
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