Sandi Metz, author of Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby and 99 Bottles of OOP, believes in simple code and straightforward explanations. She writes, consults, and teaches about OO design.
Too many, really, to pick one. Katrina and I as very different. The core lesson for me was that while it's easy to pair with someone who is like you, it's better, if you can stand it, to pair with someone who is different.
Being forced to resolve our differences improved our understanding of the material, and vastly improved that book. This only worked because, despite our head-banging, we respected one another's ideas, and believed that if we stayed at a discussion (read, argument) long enough, we would find that we actually agreed.
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Too many, really, to pick one. Katrina and I as very different. The core lesson for me was that while it's easy to pair with someone who is like you, it's better, if you can stand it, to pair with someone who is different.
Being forced to resolve our differences improved our understanding of the material, and vastly improved that book. This only worked because, despite our head-banging, we respected one another's ideas, and believed that if we stayed at a discussion (read, argument) long enough, we would find that we actually agreed.