I was wondering if anyone here wanted to take part in a Boost talk about real world programming experiences. Something like "rules to code by" or "nuggets of experience" or...? ie if you had to give your 1 favorite rule you code by, what would it be? For me it might be: - Inversion Principle or - Comments with the word "otherwise" are the best comments I could explain the Inversion Principle, or tell the story of when I started using "otherwise" in comments, within 10-15 minutes, maybe less. Then someone else could explain something helpful they've learned over the years. It could be the easiest way to get your feet wet in giving a talk - you just need to do a few minutes. I don't think there is much detail needed actually - I think just knowing that the author of so-and-so library actually does use TDD daily, or that a respected regular on the list does things this way, etc - just *knowing* that someone you respect does things a certain way, might be all that is needed. You can always find more details about certain rules/principles on the web, so in-depth explanations aren't really necessary. The important part, I think, is that someone you know (even just "virtually") is doing things that way. I'm thinking it would be called "How I Code". Not "How you should code" (although that might be implied). Just how each presenter codes in real world programming tasks. But I can't do this alone - no one wants to hear just about how I code - they want to hear about how you code. Plus I will probably have another Boost talk to frantically make last minute changes to, so I can't handle 2 talks - but I can help get people together and organize this and do a part. Overall, hopefully it would be more discussion than presentation, and maybe even some contradicting favorite rules - real life programming is never that simple such that one rule always works, right? Tony Van Eerd