Archive for March 2010
So far we’ve established a few things from the last post on Jedi Software Training:
- We already implicitly and perhaps accidentally practice the Apprentice/Master model in software development today.
- The route to Software Master is paved with ambiguity. Most who achieve it can’t tell you how they got there.
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Seriously, has the Mozilla team run out of important things to work on in Firefox?
My Firefox browser updated to 3.6.2 today and I’m greeted with this page, asking me to try their new personas:
Software engineering is perhaps the youngest of all the engineering disciplines (and some would even argue, we don’t practice an engineering discipline at all). But like all disciplines, an engineer must be trained in order to achieve a level of competence to practice their craft with any proficiency.
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There seems to be a fundamental debate raging: Is software more like mad science or plumbing?
This debate came to my attention via Mike Taylor’s article: What Ever Happened to Programming? Mike’s argument is that programming is nothing more than plumbing today and it’s no longer fun. He believes that there’s more fun to be had as a “mad scientist” developer, building everything from scratch with materials at hand. So let’s look at the two major camps of this argument:
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Proving once again that my sense of humor is only funny to me, I bring you 31 snowclones about Software, Computers and Technology.
No, I’m not talking about snocones although I’m sure there are more than 31 flavors, most of them horrible like Bertie’s Everflavor Beans (One vomit snocone please!).
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Older Developers: Bad Habits Are Killing Your Career
10 Comments · Posted by Dave in Developers
OK, so my last post about five pervasive myths about older software developers was definitely getting a lot of:
Go old guys!
“Old guys! Old guys! Rah-rah-rah!”
in the comments. And it wasn’t necessarily undeserved…after all, it was about debunking myths that have crept in as supposed truisms over the years. But I left out a tiny little detail about something important.
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