{"id":2362,"date":"2015-09-22T19:50:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T07:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2015-09-22T19:50:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T07:50:50","slug":"break-it-or-improve-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/2362\/","title":{"rendered":"Break It or Improve It ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute]<\/span><\/span><p>Seth Godin recently asserted that <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2015\/09\/dont-touch-it-you-might-break-it.html\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Don&#8217;t touch it!  You might break it<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>is the opposite of <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Touch it!  You can make it better<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I fully appreciate what he means by this (and we mustn&#8217;t forget that Seth Godin does not blog on the subject of software development, although a lot of what he says often has relevance) but in the world of software application support I think there is a middle ground in this case.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Improve it only if you are <strong><em>sure<\/em><\/strong> you won&#8217;t break it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute]<\/span><\/span>Seth Godin recently asserted that Don&#8217;t touch it! You might break it is the opposite of Touch it! You can make it better I fully appreciate what he means by this (and we mustn&#8217;t forget that Seth Godin does not blog on the subject of software development, although a lot of what he says often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,1,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delphi","category-general","category-testing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1TKYv-C6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}