I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the idea of convention in software development. The more I’ve worked with the ASP.NET MVC framework and nHibernate, and dabbled with Django, the more I’ve been able to see the benefits of designing and coding this way. It’s also made me consider my own biases and background, and realize why I’ve struggled with the idea in the past. I started out as an embedded developer, and for a long time, everything I wrote was in C or some flavor of assembler.
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My car broke down the other night; I had dinner with a friend, and left the restaurant to find that my car wouldn’t start. I ran back around the building, just in time to see my buddy driving off. Chased him five or six blocks, across the street, up a hill. When I got to the top, he was gone. Walked back to the parking lot, flagged down a helpful passer-by, and tried a jump-start; nothing.
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A couple weeks ago, I started thinking about writing a simple blogging framework, and, I guess, a blog? Of course, there is approximately zero need for more blogs, or more software for making blogs–there are plenty of great platforms out there, if all you want to do is write down some thoughts that no one will ever read. But there’s something about working on a project where you’re both the developer and a user–it’s good for you.
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