Matt Blodgett on Software Development

These are so good that I had to post them here ... from Matt Blodgett's Dev Blog:

Blodgett's First Law of Software Development:

A development process that involves any amount of tedium will eventually be done poorly or not at all.

Corollaries to Blodgett's First Law:

• Any step in a process that could be automated must be automated.
• Any code that could be generated must be generated.
• A good developer has a built-in tedium detector that's extremely sensitive.
• Great developers feel a moral obligation to eliminate tedium.
• Tedium indicates a flaw in your process.
• A good developer will refuse to do boring work.
• A good developer is lazy.
• It's foolish to force your best developers to do boring work.
• Prefer unit tests over comments.
• Dynamic languages will eventually win.
• Ruby on Rails is popular because it ruthlessly eliminates tedium from web development.
• "Don't Repeat Yourself" might be the most important and fundamental principle in software development.