Persiflage and Piffle

Whilst I’m not sure I’d take the argument quite as far as Jason Gorman in this blog article “Good Enough” Really Means “Almost Perfect”, I’m right with him in his sentiment.
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If you’re interested in software development, the relationship between design and construction and whether the discipline is engineering or an art, then I very much recommend spending 15 minutes reading Jack W Reeves’s What is Software Design? article. It puts an interesting slant on the term software design to help align it with other engineering disciplines.

The article is 15 years old and as with all good things relating to our industry, timeless.

Today, whilst skim reading an article for a product, I found myself head in hands, screaming “No, no, no!”. The product in question has a CSV import facility so that you can load up some important data quickly, for example:

IDENTIFIER, NAME, EMAIL
1,Nermal,123@456.com
2,Pooky,789@abc.com

Nothing wrong there, I’m happy with CSV as an import/export mechanism (see KISS principle).

Here’s what got me.
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In my why have all your eggs in one basket? blog post, I described how you could completely customise the structure of your Eclipse projects to be almost any thing you wanted. Perhaps though, I may have been a little misleading, and could have implied that I think that this kind of frigging around is a good thing.
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