I saw a fun article named Design Eye for the Usability Guy in which a group of people walked through a design and offered advice. This is a play on the tv show Queer Eye for the Straight guy. I thought it would be fun to do the same thing in our world: Enterprise Design Eye for the Coding Guy.

We would have to think of the topics for the experts:

E.g.

• Code Style (anyone but Cameron and his weird brackets!)
• Enterprise Scalability
• Build System
• Design Pattern use ;)
• Right tool for the job

Any ideas? :)

I'll come out of the closet for this one.

Personal Grooming Guy - first of all we gotta cut your spaghetti code off and apply product... like aspect goo.

Interior Design Guy - let's go shopping for a new IDE, fabulous! Nothing brings out personal style and comfort better than an ergonomically designed editor.

Cooking Guy - if you want to cook to impress you gotta use the freshest opensource libraries. cvs checkout, ant build, voila!

Culture Guy - OK, if you want to throw a deployment party, you better learn some agile moves. 1, 2, 3, assert!

Style Guy - Oh those design smells, whew! Let's throw those out and try on some new patterns. A few choice buzzwords goes with just about anything and for any occasion.

...are anti-patterns starting to make a lot more sense after reading this post ;)

I think this is a gay idea...