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"Progress is chugging along but I have no one to guide me. I've razed the project and rebuilt it half a dozen times after finding some fatal architectural flaw
by travem 16y ago
"Progress is chugging along but I have no one to guide me. I've razed the project and rebuilt it half a dozen times after finding some fatal architectural flaw and recently I've just found out using tables to layout pages is a bad thing" - can you trade books with it? If so release it and start pushing it. No one who uses the site is going to care if your using CSS layouts or tables, they are going to care if it can save them money.
- rodh257 16y agoexactly, as someone who recently had to come to the realization that there is always a 'better' way of coding something I can tell you that really the programming community is filled with arguments on forums, newsgroups etc about how xxx way of doing something means if you do xxx you suck at programming and should just quit, but the reality is, customers don't care. Programming something in Rails as opposed to Java or whatever isn't going to get you any more customers. Spending your time second guessing the way you have started something (if you are anything like me) based off stuff you have read is not going to get you anywhere. Build it as best you can, but don't waste time redoing things just to make it better internally. Think of it as if you were working for a company, and you spent a month re-writing a piece of their software, how can you explain to the directors the benefits of them paying you for that last month. If you think they'll scoff, don't do it.