> There are also tons of evangelists, which promote their technology/process/approach of choice, giving endless introductory talks and blogposts, but without an

> There are also tons of evangelists, which promote their technology/process/approach of choice, giving endless introductory talks and blogposts, but without answering complicated questions. I find some programmers are very adamant that there's always a right way and a wrong way to do something and you just have to examine the pros and the cons. Well, what about when it's between a legacy codebase that no one on the team has even spent half a day looking at and an idea that someone read on a blog post that they never bothered to try? You can't honestly begin to identify pros and cons in a situation like that. But this is how our industry is now. So you kind of have to take claims of "best practices" with a grain of salt. I don't even really engage in discussions on "best practices" anymore. Not because I'm cynical, but because they just lead nowhere. Write some code that runs, show it to me and we'll talk.