<cynic> Signs of an Immature preacher. Define a bunch of rules that sound good. Ignore contradictions between them. Write blog posts and books. Live off the proceedings of the cult you built. </cynic>

TDD is PITA and I do not know any one soul that actually follows it. But it does sound good.

Best Practices are a dozen a dime and if anything they can serve as to identify which kind of books the team lead once read.

I could go on but I'm seriously bored by this type of posts/attitude. I only commend because nowdays they seem to come disguised as "pragmatic".

There are some valid points in there but there are zealot red-flags as well. Funny enough 'no zealots' is one of the points.