You know - it’s not AJAX, and it’s not Ruby on Rails, and it’s not any of this technology stuff. You know a lot of people say it’s about people, but yeah, of course it’s about people - I don’t think that’s new eather.
Simple, focused, clear, elegant tools that just do a few things really well and then get out of your way. I just think software gets in your way too much. You know - it’s trying to be too clever, solve too many problems.
So hopefully, software starts solving less problems, not more problems. And I think that’s kind of what’s going on right now.
Jason Fri, 37signals - Web 2.0 Show
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At the end of the day, it’s like - really whatever works for you is really what’s most important.
I know we get a lot of flap for preaching our way, and people say just that we think our way is the only way - and that’s just not true at all, so I think - whatever works for you, is what you should do, but you should certainly be open to other ways at working - that I think is the key.
Before we start doing it this way, I used to do it the old way - do a lot of charts and graphs, and flowcharts and diagrams and all the stuff… and do a programming first, programmer gave us kind a skeleton app. which then we’d make look nice. And it just… it never worked right. So we decided to do it a more natural way. And this is what we’ve come up with.
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