Business Software vs. Plumbing
I very much enjoyed this thoughtful and well written post by blogger Ravi Mohan, "But Martin, Enterprise Software IS Boring." Ravi responds to a recent post by Martin Fowler regarding "customer affinity" and "enterprise developers," and ends up doing a great job exploring an area I've thought a lot about myself (with little to show for it): what accounts for the apparent differences between business-oriented developers from their counterparts who are more interested in "things like compilers and hardware hacks and 'tough' algorithmic problems" (Ravi's phrasing)?
Dan
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The problem is...we need MORE, not less "arcane union regs"
I was offended when Ravi used "arcane union regulations" as an example because India and the US need MORE and not less protection for workers, and programmers, as workers, should be willing to protect their fellow workers.
However, the article is very interesting. I will reply to it at greater length when I have more time.