Year: 2007

Interview with metablogging.gr

Metablogging.gr did a podcast interview with me (mp3 file, 15:20 long, 14 MBytes). It was fun to do. The questions are in Greek, but I was provided with the translation, so my answers are in English. In case you don’t understand the Greek part, here are the translations of the questions that I used for my answers:

  • A few words about yourself and your blogging past.
  • Leonid, Greek bloggers saw you first time at Ios. How did you hear about the GBC and how did you find it?
  • About WordPress Bits: lots of us were struck that a new blog gets into the wordpress dashboard immediately. What’s the deal? Is this a special arrangement with Automattic?
  • Judging from people’s comments so far, has it been accepted well? To the best of your knowledge, how many Greeks (Greek Cypriots included) follow Wordpres bits.
  • How did you came up with the idea of WP Bits? Is your professional experience that has contributed to it, or just pure amateur’s love?
  • Give us a picture of the blogospere is Cyprus. Are there aggregators that concentrate on the Cypriot blogospere?
  • Anything you might want to add.

Good code takes time

This is so true:

Good code takes time. One great engineer can do more than ten mediocre ones especially when starting a project. But great engineers still need time: whenever we’ve thought our talent, sprinkled with the fairy dust of some new engineering paradigm, would free us from having to schedule time for design and testing, we’ve paid for it. To make something elegant takes time, and the cult of speed sometimes works against that.

I am working on a couple of things now that I have to delivery like right now. One of these things will for sure be only used once and then thrown out and forgotten. Another one will probably be used by a few people and then re-built and extended.

Due dates are way off for both projects and there is a lot of pressure to deliver. Still, I can’t force myself into releasing them half-baked. I’ve been beaten by returning maintenance way too many times. There are not that many things out there which are worse than that…