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A note to the reader

Posted on June 2, 2008
Filed Under cognifide | 4 Comments

Over the last couple of months I’ve been asking myself where my interests lie and that this should be reflected in my blog. But before I could do that I had to be honest with myself. So, I stood up one day, butt naked, well semi-clad and chanted:

• “I no longer write production quality code.”

Okay, for those of you at the back, let me repeat, cough, cough:

• “I NO LONGER WRITE PRODUCTION QUALITY CODE.”

And before the wise cracks start coming in. I’m not part of the production build team. But please don’t underestimate the weight that those words carry for me. I have nothing but envy for true builders. People that delivery production code but that is something I cannot do and do the other stuff that I need do. So this brings me back to the question, what am I into?

In essence, I’m into everyday people building damned good software. What is out there for them? What crap do they have to climb over to get to the job done? Why is so hard? How can it be made easier? Understandably, these are big questions and as stuff changes. I will need to change with them but that’s what keeps things interesting.

So, am I interested in Java the language? Nowhere near as much as I used to be 10 years ago. I used to live and breath Java. It was weird as I was kinda like married to Java but from around 2001 started having an on and off affair with C#. What about Java the platform, yeah, there’s more interest there. How about C#? Well, more interesting as a language than Java, but not really enough for me to re-install VisualStudio to play with it. Ah, the rise of multi-core programming and multi-tenant systems. Now you talking. This stuff floats my boat and leads into how far is this (infrastructure/service/platform)aas (as as service) going? Very interesting stuff. Hang on, that mozilla stuff, prism, looking for more integration between the web page and the desktop. Kind of cool the idea of tearing off a web page from your browser onto the desktop. Then this RIA, Flex, and so on. But firefox 3, nope, lower down the stack i’m afraid. Agile. Yes. Static/Hybrid/Dynamic languages. You bet. Novell. Errr, no!

That’s it. Just thought I’d let you. I’m going to become more active on this blog but just a little more focussed, that’s all.

Oh, let me leave you with this. I saw this advert on the tv the other night, and being an old timer, it really made me laugh. Enjoy!

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