Why Enterprise Programming Is So Challenging
If you backed me into a corner and asked me what’s the toughest and most challenging kind of software development I’ve ever experienced, I’d have to say hands down, it’s the world of enterprise software development. To be clear, enterprise development is all about...
How a Developer Measures Success
How should a software developer measure their success? When I was younger and starting out in my professional software development career, I used to think it was how much code I sling. Like Clint Eastwood in “A Fistful of Dollars”, I liked to pretend I was a...
How Developers Level Up
I’ve been a video game nut ever since I was a kid. I especially loved those Dungeons & Dragons style role playing fantasy games where you played a lone hero out to save the world from unspeakable evils. Every role playing game, whether it’s paper based or computer...
The “I’m Not Technical” Cop Out
There’s something I’ve been observing recently about my job that’s really been puzzling me lately. Maybe puzzling is a little bit too weak. More like disturbing. I work as a software developer for a software as a service company. It’s basically their primary bread and...