Have you ever known someone like this?\u00a0 Maybe it was a child:<\/p>\n
“Well, I was making tomato soup and I saw the bananas sitting there, and thought they’ll just go to waste.\u00a0 So I sliced them up in the soup!\u00a0 Then, remembering I had some cheese and sausage and pickled herring left from that party — I threw them in, and also the last of those brownies from the office meeting.”<\/p>\n
Yum.\u00a0 That’s gotta be some great tomato soup.<\/p>\n
If the goal was to make tomato soup . . . it was quite<\/em> missed by the misapplication of ingredients.\u00a0 Sliced bananas don’t work well in everything.<\/p>\n Mountain Bikes<\/strong><\/p>\n Recently I was looking for a rear cargo carry rack for my mountain bike.\u00a0 For the winter, I have mounted some monstrous tires to float over the snow and grip some ice.\u00a0 Monstrous.\u00a0 I also have the need of carrying some cargo so I started to look for a bike rack that bolts onto the rear.\u00a0 I can’t find one.\u00a0 I looked at maybe 10 models, even very expensive ones.\u00a0 None provide the clearance on the giant snow tire or meet the specifications of my particular bike.\u00a0 None.<\/p>\n One company I talked to suggested this: “Why don’t you just use a smaller tire, then the rack will fit.”<\/p>\n To which I responded: “Thanks, but that would defeat the whole purpose of the snow tires!”<\/p>\n So basically the guy suggested I add sliced bananas to my soup, ignoring the whole requirements of what I need, just to make one little thing work.<\/p>\n So — I made something myself.<\/p>\n Misapplication of Sliced Bananas in Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n This kind of scenario has so many equivalencies in the tech world I’m making a second pot of coffee just to think about them!<\/p>\n Off the top of my head, I’ve found sliced bananas in these situations:<\/p>\n Recently the methodology sliced banana has been rearing its ugly head up everywhere.\u00a0 I have been talking around and reading sites etc. and it looks like a lot of the rigid agile stuff has been falling to the wayside.\u00a0 So the providers of it are trying to do anything to sell it.\u00a0\u00a0 For instance, I have talked to several places that talk about TDD and how important it is but barely anyone uses it.\u00a0 TDD is a sliced banana, definitely.\u00a0 Or what about top-down agile?\u00a0 This is where all the projects info is put into an Agile tool with the intent of making a dashboard for upper management.\u00a0 But — once this is rooted in upper management the very “Agile” nature of the project is scuttled because if there’s a problem, it can’t be changed.\u00a0 Another sliced banana.<\/p>\n Features has me thinking too.\u00a0 A lot of places that don’t even know their business model want uber-flexible frameworks with high amounts of functionality.\u00a0 Well, I’ve learned something from mountain bikes, kayaks, other objects like iPhones and iPads.\u00a0 Things that do a lot of stuff\u00a0 do not do one thing outstandingly.\u00a0 Sorry but that’s just how it is.\u00a0 A super fancy UI (function=eye appeal) is harder to change quickly.\u00a0 A broad domain model takes more time to extend.<\/p>\n Tooling too.\u00a0 You want to have it all?\u00a0 Get the IntelliJ IDE BUT it costs money and is a less flexible environment.\u00a0 So you like basic editing\/quick turn around\u00a0 time?\u00a0 Use VIM and the command line; but forget about good debugging.\u00a0 Some people need a Cuisinart, sometimes the task needs a Cuisinart; or sometimes a person can do everything with a good knife.<\/p>\n Well anyway I think I have made my point.\u00a0 Most of us would prefer to spend our time on just making simple good ole’ tomato soup when that’s what’s needed.\u00a0 And its surprisingly difficult to make in the software world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have you ever known someone like this?\u00a0 Maybe it was a child: “Well, I was making tomato soup and I saw the bananas sitting there, and thought they’ll just go to waste.\u00a0 So I sliced them up in the soup!\u00a0 Then, remembering I had some cheese and sausage and pickled herring left from that party […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n