http://www.lessonsoffailure.com/developers/software-plumbing-mad-science/ Humans + Software Development = Always Interesting Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:05:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.lessonsoffailure.com/developers/software-plumbing-mad-science/comment-page-1/#comment-355 Top Three Motivators For Developers (Hint: not money!) | Lessons of Failure Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:51:01 +0000 http://www.lessonsoffailure.com/?p=529#comment-355 [...] Nothing is more tedious, horrific, or uninspiring to developers to work on projects that lack any real meaning in the world.  Or lack any real direction.  Or lack any substantial need from the company.  In fact, you can [...] [...] Nothing is more tedious, horrific, or uninspiring to developers to work on projects that lack any real meaning in the world.  Or lack any real direction.  Or lack any substantial need from the company.  In fact, you can [...]

]]> http://www.lessonsoffailure.com/developers/software-plumbing-mad-science/comment-page-1/#comment-256 Sergey Pomytkin Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:57:34 +0000 http://www.lessonsoffailure.com/?p=529#comment-256 Agree, just see less difference in pluming and since skills for programmers. I just hope people wouldn’t take it literally and think of software “plumbers” as data entry positions, etc. – fortunately good developer always can look for ways to minimize pluming and often develop new tool or contribute to it’s development. So, if analogy necessary I’d rather point to civil engineer or architect as alternative to inventor – getting dipper into business domain vs. into guts of pluming tools. Agree, just see less difference in pluming and since skills for programmers. I just hope people wouldn’t take it literally and think of software “plumbers” as data entry positions, etc. – fortunately good developer always can look for ways to minimize pluming and often develop new tool or contribute to it’s development. So, if analogy necessary I’d rather point to civil engineer or architect as alternative to inventor – getting dipper into business domain vs. into guts of pluming tools.

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