Duct Tape Programmer?

I wouldn't normally think that duct tape and software engineering go very well together, but according to this article by the great Joel Spolsky, it may not be a bad thing.

I have been using more OO concepts in my programs lately but still I can help but feel like I'm always running behind schedule and can't always research the best way to code & design my projects. I end up with a lot of small LOB (Line Of Business) applications. Most of the time I have less than a few days to write these little programs and they just need to get produced and left alone.

So I seriously have to ask myself, am I too a duct tape programmer? And if so, is that really a bad thing? After all, real programmers ship!

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Retro Computing!

So I've been hit by the retro computing bug. Maybe it's all the books I've been reading lately such as iWoz and the book about Commodore. Whatever the impetus, I've been inspired to pull out my old Amiga systems and get the back in working order.

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