Simple, Standard and Open

Today, i was at Google NYC attending to the Meetup about the Crisis Response project, I learned a couple of stuff there that i would like to share with you, I also remembered some old concepts, let's start recognizing that some people in Google is using their knowledge and some cool tools to help people, if you want to know a little bit more about that check the google.org site. GOOD JOB PEOPLE!!

Then, at the beginning of the tech talk the presenter showed a slide with this 3 words:

SIMPLE

STANDARD

OPEN

Reading that, I came with the idea of sharing my opinion about those words.

Talking about SIMPLE, we usually start to building stuff, coding, developing and we walk around many options or solutions, well, I will tell you something, you should be trying the simplest one, you do not need to create a time machine to get the current system time... please KEEP IT SIMPLE!!

In second place, let's be standard, if you have a proven solution please use it, after having your product up and running you will have the chance to invent stuff just to replace those that could work better, but the secret is here.. USE THE STANDARDS, if the specification of a product says that you have to do X, then why are you trying to do 1/X, if the language is object oriented why are you trying to create a procedural code. Be STANDARD

Openness, do not refer only to open source products, it refers to be open to collaboration and be open to collaborate, if you have a problem ASK, if you found a solution PUBLISH it. Also remember that most of the time you are working with other people, so please be gentle and comment the code, create READMEs, etc.