On 27/01/2009, at 5:03 PM, Pat Allan wrote: > Surely differences of opinions just leads to interesting discussions > and an attempt to find common ground - I know I'm open to people > suggesting my code be structured in a different way. > > There is beauty for beauty's sake, but that does not mean there are no > aesthetic approaches that lend themselves to smarter code maintenance.
I agree, Pat. There was a great presentation at RailsConf 2006 which was basically the material requested here, and I found that the framework it presented for thinking about design issues was very enlightening. If there's a designer who thinks they might like to present on this subject, I can pass on the saved slideset from this preso for you to leach... uh, borrow from ;-) Clifford Heath. > > > -- > Pat > > On 27/01/2009, at 11:36 AM, Torm3nt wrote: > >> I don't think this would work so well, remember that beauty is in >> the eye of the beholder, unless we go over programming design >> concepts.etc. >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Mike Bailey <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Might inspire a whole new breed of mini-presentations on cleaning up >> the stuff we already have, might fail miserably ;) >> >> I would be interested in seeing a "design eye for the developer guy" >> type of session. >> >> It would take some organizing but people could submit open source >> rails apps that >> aren't pretty and watch as design people give them makeovers. >> >> Actually, that would also make for some good screencasts. >> >> - Mike >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
