Some might say 2014 has been a year of programming related death. TDD is dead. Agile is dead. The Framework is dead. If this keeps up, all of programming should be dead by about December 31st. Earlier this year I was lucky enough to attend a small conference in Southern france known as Ruby Lugdunum. In the late afternoon of the final day we retreated to a cafe and there was a panel discussion on
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