Extender tutorial on techbase

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
>needed in
> practice. in fact, the simplicity is *THE primary feature*.
>
> as a team, we end up in this same sort of discussion for nearly every bit
> of the API that we spend too much time with. why? we become comfortable
> with the API, master it, then try and do new tricks with it that lead us to
> want to make the API even more complex ... and we forget about simplicity.
> we forget to challenge ourselves to accomplish our goal with the simpler
> API. we forget that we're not here primarily to obsess over the framework,
> but to make things with it.
>
> a good exercise that i've found to try and avoid this pitfall is to imagine
> in my mind a new coder who pops up on the irc channel. i then imagine
> myself explaining what i'm working on to them. this is often an eye
> openner.
indeed, didn't tought from that way :)
btw, near to make clock use it, just fixed a crash in the patch and then 
mostly works =)

Cheers,
Marco Martin

> another good exercise is not allowing myself new API; i pretend that it is
> Simply Not An Option. even if this means i have to go away for a day or two
> and think about it all frustrated, usually i eventually come back with a
> much better way to do it. sometimes it doesn't need new API at all.
> sometimes we end up with a new class altogether (that's how Plasma::Service
> came about).
>
> just some thoughts to help improve our shared design process =)