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When is it NIH vs. being a sensible investment of time?

So I'm sitting here playing catch up listening to Stack Overflow Podcast #20 and Joel is talking about the Excel guys at MS who wrote their own compiler to improve the performance of code that worked with pointers and it got me wondering when is it NIH versus being a sensible investment of time? Given the situation back then that t...

How to manage shared libraries?

Every time I make a project I develop several generic routines/modules/libraries that I expect I'll be using with other projects. Due to the speed of development I don't spend a lot of time making these modules perfect - just good enough for this project, and well enough documented and isolatable that I can easily add them to another pr...