WW DHH D ?
Lately I find myself asking “What would David Heinemeier Hansson do?” as I code.
I have learned volumes about ruby from reading his source code. Frequently I blindly follow his techniques without necessarily understanding them first — out of character for me. But when it’s DHH, you can be sure that tomorrow you’ll understand it and be glad you did it today.
I almost got up to go for a walk because I’m hitting the 8 hour mark of non-stop coding (no lunch) but then I said out loud “No, David Heinemeier Hansson would stay and finish this.”
I’m making a prototype now for a bracelet inscribed “WWDHHD?” with the intent of getting rich selling it online.
Also: todo: make a video spoofing the OSCON “application in 15 minutes” — but make it like a B2B enterprise system in 20 seconds. And make it all cinematic, with virtual reality gloves and speech to text and lots of shouting and kungfoo poses.
But in all seriousness, thank you DHH. Heros are hard to come by these days. I look forward to the day when I can actually find a shortcoming in your work.
March 2nd, 2006 at 1:59 pm
Mark,
nice. i’ve done the same thing in tricky situations asking myself “how would John Blayter approach this? or how would Joe Rinehart’s philosophy be on abstracting this… DHH is legit. send me that ruby code sample when you get a chance and Kimbro and I will get back to you about your participation in the Grid7 pilot.
Sean