{"id":305,"date":"2002-10-21T13:57:18","date_gmt":"2002-10-22T03:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=305"},"modified":"2002-10-21T13:57:18","modified_gmt":"2002-10-22T03:57:18","slug":"they-write-the-right-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2002\/10\/21\/they-write-the-right-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"They Write the Right Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/online\/06\/writestuff.html\">The Write the Right Stuff<\/a>.&nbsp;Grown-up software production vs<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0006548598\/202-4518508-9057434\">Microserfs<\/a>. Written for a general readership, this is one of the better non-technical&nbsp;articles on software engineering I&#8217;ve read. A very refreshing antidote to our industries&#8217; all to frequent rhapsodizing about the latest system architecture fashion or complex middleware layer. If I could have one sentence from this article pummled into the head of every software development manager, it would be &#8220;Don&#8217;t just fix the mistakes &#8212; fix whatever permitted the mistake in the first place.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Write the Right Stuff.&nbsp;Grown-up software production vsMicroserfs. Written for a general readership, this is one of the better non-technical&nbsp;articles on software engineering I&#8217;ve read. A very refreshing antidote to our industries&#8217; all to frequent rhapsodizing about the latest system architecture fashion or complex middleware layer. If I could have one sentence from this article &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2002\/10\/21\/they-write-the-right-stuff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;They Write the Right Stuff&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}