Stackoverflow and SOLID Principles

I'm still shocked at how the entire Robert Martin (aka Uncle Bob) fiasco has turned out on the stackoverflow podcast.

And, I'm not sure this episode #41 has changed anything.

I've been programming for 6 years. With each new project I work on, I strive to improve my code just a little bit more than the previous project.

I'm not saying that I only write code that follows things like the SOLID principles. I'm saying that do try to think about ideas like this (and many other ideas) while I write my code.

Maybe I heard it incorrectly, but both Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood still seemed to think the SOLID principles were a waste of time.

I think this was more confusing than helpful to the programming community.

The idea that there is a set of engineering principles that I can incorporate into my code is invaluable to me.

Everyone that listened to the stackoverflow podcast #38 and #41 should at least listen to the hanselminutes episode with Bob Martin, and go read about the SOLID principles, and then just think about them next time you write some code.