Back when software was a craft
Standardization turns a craft into a knowledge-based industry, says Tiago Forte. Has that happened to software, with open-source libraries as standards?
ecosystem
Before balance, separation.
We don’t program in a language, these days: we program in systems. I may write Clojure, with ring and schema and clj-http and clj-time and test.check and lein and jetty and many more inclusions. I may write Scala, with akka OR with scalaz and Shapeless, or a weird combination. We never programmed in a language: …
The power of embedded developers
Meet my friend Sean. Sean is one of the most powerful developers I know. Not best, not brilliantest, but most powerful because: he provides more business value than some 50-person teams. What is the job title of such a powerful developer? It isn’t “ninja” (although maybe it should be). It’s “Accounting Manager.” WAT. Program: runs …