I call bullshit. I've worked with some "just get it done programmers'. Have you tried to go into code that someone threw in to just make it work.
Abstraction, interfaces and unit tests are not a leisurely activity for academic developers. We use them to make the code less complex and maintain. The cost of development isn't the initial code base, its the fixes and additional features people want AFTER the initial release(s). Going back into the code and safely making changes or adding code with these in place reduces time.
I had an application without automated testing, it cost the company almost 2000 man hours to test the system every time they made a release.
Design patterns, Joel, are repeatable patterns within code. Design patterns are again to help when another developer goes into the code they can see what the heck the original developer tried to accomplish.
To summarize, I would suggest you out source some code to the far east. They will get it done really fast for you. And yes it will only work 50% of the time. I love buying products that will only work 50% of the time and unfortunately I don't get to pick which 50% works.
Abstraction, interfaces and unit tests are not a leisurely activity for academic developers. We use them to make the code less complex and maintain. The cost of development isn't the initial code base, its the fixes and additional features people want AFTER the initial release(s). Going back into the code and safely making changes or adding code with these in place reduces time.
I had an application without automated testing, it cost the company almost 2000 man hours to test the system every time they made a release.
Design patterns, Joel, are repeatable patterns within code. Design patterns are again to help when another developer goes into the code they can see what the heck the original developer tried to accomplish.
To summarize, I would suggest you out source some code to the far east. They will get it done really fast for you. And yes it will only work 50% of the time. I love buying products that will only work 50% of the time and unfortunately I don't get to pick which 50% works.