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You think I'm doing it wrong, so help me do it right

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I am fed up with reading more and more posts, mostly on twitter, telling me I’m wrong if I’m doing it this way or wrong if I’m not using this tool. Who gives you the right to tell me I am not correct? You do not know my problem space, domain or the criteria I need to work towards.

I have to say that this post is not in retaliation to anyone telling me I am doing something wrong. It is based towards all the posts titled ‘You’re doing it wrong….’

In my opinion, we are continually learning in this industry. Something you may be good at now, may not be the hot topic in 6 months time. I am not sure there is a single person who knows *everything*. You may have your niche of expertise and you may be able to help but be constructive. If you really think I am doing it wrong, then give me reasons why so and point out the flaws in my way. It isn’t black and white. This is not a math problem – there may be more than 1 way to do something.

I do a lot of speaking to groups about continuous integration & delivery. There is no way I would tell someone they are wrong. Instead, all I can do is to put the reasons out there for my way of doing something. If the person takes this on-board then that's fantastic. If they don't, I won't get offended. Maybe we should focus on helping the devs who are supposedly doing it wrong rather than pointing that almighty finger at them. Who knows, you may even learn something yourself.

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Terry Brown
5/2/2012 9:42:03 AM #

I've found myself looking less and less at twitter over the past few months for this very reason - a lot of people have put it better than I, but when there is any form of discussion, it's far easier (in 140 characters) to deliver a controversial soundbyte than to deliver something meaningful.

Obviously it requires the author of said controversial soundbyte to be the type of person that wants to make 'impact' but lets face it, a lot of the community are like that and really want their voice heard - don't get me wrong, the fact that I'm replying to this and that I tweet/blog suggests I'm sometimes in the same camp, but I'd attempt where possible to not deliver draconian 'though shalt not' doctrines.

The question is, where does the community go to to achieve a more effective communication mechanism? Google+ seems to be getting a lot of stick of late (I've not spent enough time in there to really see), Facebook is all about puppies and jessie j videos, so where next?

Twitter as a medium is both ingenious and flawed - 140 chars means you 're not forced to read 3 pages of someones rant, but in equal measure, you find on a hot topic 140 chars generates far more caustic 'thou shalt not' type replies simply because of that lack of real estate.

Twitter is broken, long live twitter? I'll happily look for another medium to replace it though.

Ryan Tomlinson
5/2/2012 9:52:35 AM #

I complained about this in February.

https://twitter.com/#!/ryantomlinson/status/171689855087161344

If you complain in May....you're doing it wrong!