A Day in the Life of an Application Developer
Interview
SYNOPSIS
Humans have notoriously been long on power and short on thinking about the consequences of technology. Those who create the powerful "intelligence" that runs computer hardware are rightfully becoming indispensable in today’s technology-driven world. This is primarily due to our global society's ever increasing reliance on intelligent systems driven by software. These instrumental humans have a title; they are called Application Developers ...
The above is a synopsis of the published paper and music video A Day in the Life of an Application Developer.
Read the paper - watch the video - choose your order :-)
Credits, Bows, Bloopers & Behind the Scenes
What People are Saying
"There are so many ideas that you conveyed in the article that I have espoused over the years as a developer it makes me think many of us think alike. I've always told junior developers (and now I tell my children): First you learn the rules and follow the rules. After you can explain the value of the rules, then you will know when it's appropriate to break them. Until then, you follow the rules. Following the rules comes from the programmer part of me that finds patterns and reapplies them. Breaking the rules comes from the artist part that knows that not every problem can be solved using the rules unless you just want something that works as badly as everything else."
- Kent Bair, Sr Technical Education Consultant at EMC
Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt
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