With the year just ended, it is time that I once again came up with a new maxim. This past year my maxim was "..Fresh thinking yields new ideas". I proudly put my name and year right after it. Now that the new year has started and already a week into it, I already have heard from friends asking me to update my maxim. I have been thinking hard about what I hold true this year. I could quote Mr. Obama, Mr. Raila or any of the other politicians given that this is a high political season. However in doing so I lack the ability to append my name right after it. It is for that reason that I have stired up the matter in my medulla to come up with this years maxim ..
".. any good system is free of surprises and delivers on expectations - Dickens 2008". For those who've been paying attention to the recent unfoldings in the programming world, this maxim does relate to Ruby. Yes it is a great system, especially paired up with rails. I hope I did not just waste a whole years worth of a maxim. I believe that even a good political system lacks surprises and delivers on expectations. That is why the voting public never expects people to change positions if a politician changes a position or appears to, they will try to spin it as an expectation on a delivery and not just another oops!
