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Forge Your Future with Open Source
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Forge Your Future with Open Source

by VM Brasseur
October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
6h 14m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Keep It Simple, Silly

We in the software world love to get mired down in the details. We’ll spend hours thinking and arguing about the minutiae, whether we need to or not. Add to that a tendency toward perfectionism and you have a recipe for what’s called premature optimization, or trying to optimize a program or process before you’ve had the chance to see whether that optimization is even needed. When premature optimization occurs while trying to prepare a project to release as FOSS, there’s a very good chance that the release will be delayed indefinitely as everything is over-considered, over-architected, but undoubtedly under-documented.

If you’ve never released a FOSS project before, you naturally want to do everything possible to make sure ...

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