我不需要快速重构我的面向对象的代码。马丁·福勒终于睁开了我的眼睛。

在很长一段时间里(大约5年)，我认为PHP很棒。

我以为我懂算法。然后我加入了Topcoder.com

我可能花了几天时间试图减少业务层使用的内存，后来才意识到项目的WinForms (GUI)使用的内存是应用程序其他部分的4倍多。

通过学习一门精确的科学，我不需要提高我有限的社交技能。

我以为这将是一场过山车之旅，里面有飞驰的汽车、放荡的女人、私人飞机和大胆的冒险。等着瞧吧，直到我得到那个职业顾问....

我仍然对以下的一些误解感到困扰——尽管我知道这些误解是正确的，但我仍然试图抓住它们不放:

All stakeholders will make decisions about software design objectively. Those that aren't embroiled in writing the code make all sorts of decisions based entirely on emotion that don't always make sense to us developers. Project budgets always make sense - I've seen companies that are quite happy to drop [just for example] $50,000 a month for years rather than pay $250,000 to have a project completed in 6 months. The government for one loses their annual budget if they don't spend it - so spend it they will, come hell or high water. It astounds me at how many project dollars are wasted on things like this. You should always use the right tools for the right job - sometimes this decision is not in your hands. Sometimes it comes down from on high that "thou shalt use X technology" for this project, leaving you thinking "WTF! Who came up with that ridiculous idea?"... the guy paying your paycheque, that's who, now get it done. Programming ideology comes first and foremost, everything else is secondary. In reality, deadlines and business objectives need to be met in order to get your paycheque. Sometimes you make the worst decisions because you just don't have time to do it the right way... just as sometimes that word is on the tip of your tongue but the minute it takes to recall it makes you choose a different and less ideal word. There isn't always time to do it right, sometimes there is only time to do it - however that may be. Hence oft' seen anti-patterns used by so called experienced developers who have to knock out a solution to a problem 10 minutes before the presentation deadline for the software being delivered to your best client tomorrow.