- Life is too short to waste time planning how to code well. Just write code; the best you can. (And learn how to improve it.)
- Life is too short to waste time writing tests before any single stupid method.
- Life is too short for not testing any relevant code you may have.
- Life is too short for mocking the HTTP context in order to test controllers–use worker services and don’t test controllers.
- Life is too short to make sense of Objective C. Go with MonoTouch for any iOS development.
- Life is too short to convince people that Responsive Web Design alone is useful only in simple portals and demos.
- Life is too short to learn how to write good JavaScript code.
- Life is too short to code HTML5 via Modernizr: make a choice!
- Life is too short: give us another Windows!
- Life is too short to write asynchronous code in C#.
- Life is too short for not using async in C# (cit. Ross Dargan)
- Life is too short to wait on a background thread.
- Life is too short to deal with Apple or wait for Windows Phone: just pick up Android and use IntelliJ!
- Life is too short to explain why an anemic domain model (EF-like) is poor: just don’t use it.
- Life is too short to parse user agent strings yourself.