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23rd August 2010 - Link Blog

Readme Driven Development (via) Tom Preston-Werner advocates for writing the readme before any other code. “Until you’ve written about your software, you have no idea what you’ll be coding.”

Posted 23rd August 2010 at 8:20 pm

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