{"id":167,"date":"2010-01-17T19:16:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T18:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/a-parable\/"},"modified":"2020-04-29T08:50:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T07:50:47","slug":"a-parable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2010\/a-parable\/","title":{"rendered":"A Parable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008, Bibble 4, supported by its community of plug-ins, was probably the best RAW convertor available &#8211; it was certainly my favourite. Then in late 2008 Bibble abandoned support for it, although Bibble 5 was not yet available (for another year, as it turned out). I wrote <a href=\"\/photography\/parable.asp\">a short parable<\/a> to express my frustration at this inexplicable decision.<\/p>\n<p>Although mainly about photography, I think there are lessons for anyone contemplating a disruptive, rewrite from scratch change to a software product &#8211; beware!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lessons for anyone contemplating a disruptive, rewrite from scratch, change to a software product <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2010\/a-parable\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}