Spend each day making your software a little bit better then the day before

posted Tuesday, January 31, 2006 11:51 PM

I came across this nice little “About box” on Scott Watermasysk’s blog:

Scott is an employee of Telligent Systems. Most of his work time is spent trying to make Community Server (the application behind this blog) just a little better than the day before.

Rather then getting overwhelmed with all you have to do with your application keep it nice and simple.  Make your software a little bit better then it was yesterday.  Now repeat. 

Make your code a little bit better.  Make your process a little bit better.  Make your team a little bit better.  Make small achievable goals.  Now make them better.

What did you do to make things a little bit better then they were yesterday?

3 Comments

# re: Spend each day making your software a little bit better then the day before

Wednesday, February 01, 2006 1:13 AM by Bil Simser    
Nice. I try to follow the same mantra and bite off small pieces. Incremental builds work so much better than big bang deliveries. Although a lot of time I'm always looking for code smells and generally descend on them like a fat kid on a smartie (code duplication for example usually jumps out and I tend to do this refactoring all the time, which might say something about my initial coding).

# re: Spend each day making your software a little bit better then the day before

Wednesday, February 01, 2006 8:33 AM by Dave Burke    
I know, I read Scott's brief bio "making CS a little bit better" before. Agreed. It's a great motto.


# re: Spend each day making your software a little bit better then the day before

Wednesday, February 01, 2006 8:53 AM by Steve    
Yeah, I really enjoyed his little "motto". The hard part is actually following it every day :)

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