How you place your squigglies won’t affect users in the slightest. But attention to internal code layout details implies that you’re equally attentive to the external details.

Nice blog... the guy makes some sense.

I also took a quick look at the site for his product, devshop, which appears to be a super cool project/requirements management tool.

I'm knee deep (or forehead deep, as it feels) in getting our internal development team up to speed on consistent requirements and project management methodology. I'm not an expert on this by any means, but I'm a developer who's fed up trying to make arbitrary deadlines because no one's tracking anything.

The downside is that due to client requirements, we're stuck using, essentially, the Rational Unified Process and some subset of the Rational toolset. That is, ClearQuest for defect and enhancement tracking, RequisitePRO for requirements management and Rational Rose for modelling and design. Of course, we're using MS Project for setting timelines and so forth, which is completely *not* integrated with the rest of the process.

Let me just note, I fucking hate the Rational Tools. I find them to be either minimally functional or so full of "features" that they're obtuse and are universally ultra-unfriendly. I'm 90% sure that's purposeful so that they can sell you expensive training / consulting.

Granted, the devshop application noted above doesn't do all the things that the Rational tools do, but appears to cut right to the chase as far as the nitty gritty of actually getting some work done. I look forward to checking out the final product. -k]

Uncommon Sense (for Software)