Just when I thought everything was getting better. Way much better.
- Writing code has never been so fun: we have great IDEs, loaded with refactoring features, enriched by a wealth of plugins that turn them into tailored productivity platform.
- Our tool boxes are now loaded with pragmatism-driven frameworks, multi-threaded building blocks and a panoply of libraries for everything and whatnot.
- Testing has never been so easy: we have a great variety of tools for testing applications at almost all levels and in fully automated ways.
- Testing has never been so rewarding: funny colored lights give us instant reward on our efforts while test coverage tools provide us with an exciting challenge.
- Source control management is now accessible to mere mortals: no need to be a command line guru or a sysadmin to store and manage code in repositories anymore.
- Collaborating on-line is now a reality thanks to tools designed for sharing idea, tracking issues and progress and authoring content over the Internet.
- Making reproducible and automated builds is a piece of cake: dependency management and library repositories combined with continuous integration platforms produce a sense of velocity and fluidity that makes development thrive.
- The tyranny of modelling and the myth of big design up front have been debunked and relegated to the museum of toxic ideas.
- Industry luminaries have risen and their voices have encouraged the inception of methodologies that promote communication, honesty, courage and elevated professional standards.
- Hype and buzz words are consistently derided and exposed to their true natures by the same thought leaders.
