[osigurdson]

Zen and Art of Motorcyle maintenance is a good reference.

Also, it is good to remember what game is actually being played. When someone comes up with a popularizes a given "best practice", why are they doing so? In many cases, Uncle Bob types are doing this just as a form of self promotion. Most best practices are fundamentally indefensible with proponents resorting to ad-hominem attacks if their little church is threatened.

[fud101]

That book is such a struggle in the beginning. I was waiting for it to get to the point but I never got there.