{"id":2219,"date":"2009-10-20T22:50:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T22:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-2219.html"},"modified":"2009-10-21T08:49:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T08:49:47","slug":"the-developers-mantra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2009\/10\/20\/the-developers-mantra\/","title":{"rendered":"The developer&#8217;s mantra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like you to take the time to learn the developer&#8217;s mantra:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Tester is always right. I will listen to the Tester. I will not ignore the Tester&#8217;s bug reports. The Tester is god. And, if this ever happens again, the Tester will personally <em>rip your lungs out<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This comes courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/\">Abi<\/a>, who subverted the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Babylon_5\">Babylon 5<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Babylon_5#A_Voice_in_the_Wilderness.2C_Part_1\">mantra<\/a> for the purposes of educating inexperienced developers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2009\/10\/master-and-commander.jpg\" alt=\"Ivanova and Sutherland\" title=\"Ivanova and Sutherland\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><object width=\"340\" height=\"285\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7xO9Vr_nBE8&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7xO9Vr_nBE8&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"340\" height=\"285\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like you to take the time to learn the developer&#8217;s mantra: The Tester is always right. I will listen to the Tester. I will not ignore the Tester&#8217;s bug reports. The Tester is god. And, if this ever happens again, the Tester will personally rip your lungs out. This comes courtesy of Abi, who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2009\/10\/20\/the-developers-mantra\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The developer&#8217;s mantra&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,11],"tags":[1670,1672,1673,1674,1676,1677,1678],"class_list":["post-2219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-techie","tag-abi","tag-babylon5","tag-ivanova","tag-mantra","tag-scifi","tag-software","tag-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}