Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Microsoft REMIX to be at Lim Kok Wing University?
Heard this on the grapevine, Microsoft will be having REMIX ESSENTIAL 2008 on the 27th of May @ Lim Kok Wing...might wanna call them up to check it out.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Programmer Productivity (For Managers)
A lot of programmers are mistaken in their belief that just because their language is the faster one (C/C++) they are being productive.
WRONG!
Being productive means producing the most amount of work that serves it purpose in the least amount of time, in this case writing programs that do what they are supposed to do as fast as you can.
That means writing a simple web app in dotnet trumps writing it in ASP/vbscript, a lot of managers fail to understand that the objective is to convert capital into programmer productivity.
Wordperfect died because they used Assembly to build their product when their competitors worked in C.
Dotnet is one of the most productivity enhancing platforms out there right now, it works on Windows and Linux, only a fool won't take advantage of that.
So if you are a programmer or a project manager embarking on something new, or improving on something you already have, remember this! Your job is to convert capital into programmer productivity!
It is simply wrong headed thinking to work otherwise, think of it this way the time a team takes to optimize a product can be better used developing more functionality or tweaking the UI to make it friendlier. The speed at which your application loads or the amount of resources it consumes is rarely a barrier to entry and more often than not it is solved by Moore's Law, so don't worry about it, focus instead on improving your product so that it solves problems for your users and customers.
WRONG!
Being productive means producing the most amount of work that serves it purpose in the least amount of time, in this case writing programs that do what they are supposed to do as fast as you can.
That means writing a simple web app in dotnet trumps writing it in ASP/vbscript, a lot of managers fail to understand that the objective is to convert capital into programmer productivity.
Wordperfect died because they used Assembly to build their product when their competitors worked in C.
Dotnet is one of the most productivity enhancing platforms out there right now, it works on Windows and Linux, only a fool won't take advantage of that.
So if you are a programmer or a project manager embarking on something new, or improving on something you already have, remember this! Your job is to convert capital into programmer productivity!
It is simply wrong headed thinking to work otherwise, think of it this way the time a team takes to optimize a product can be better used developing more functionality or tweaking the UI to make it friendlier. The speed at which your application loads or the amount of resources it consumes is rarely a barrier to entry and more often than not it is solved by Moore's Law, so don't worry about it, focus instead on improving your product so that it solves problems for your users and customers.
Monday, May 5, 2008
Programmer Personality Traits #1
You need to have higher than average stubbornness.
If you are not stubborn, you will give up when you hit a wall while programming. In programming you will hit walls so often that they should sell you health insurance for it. So if you are easily frustrated, you should not be a programmer. You can study CompSci, but you shouldn't be a programmer.
In the midst of working my OWN small little project, I hit numerous walls due to my unfamiliarity with the ADO.NET DataSet class. It was a really SMALL project that only does one useful thing! I'm not kidding you on how small it actually is, compared to numerous products and projects out there, the whole thing doesn't even compile to 1 MB!
IF I wasn't as stubborn as I am, I would have given up at this point! So really, being stubborn is really a virtue if you are a programmer, it not determination it's stubbornness.
If you are not stubborn, you will give up when you hit a wall while programming. In programming you will hit walls so often that they should sell you health insurance for it. So if you are easily frustrated, you should not be a programmer. You can study CompSci, but you shouldn't be a programmer.
In the midst of working my OWN small little project, I hit numerous walls due to my unfamiliarity with the ADO.NET DataSet class. It was a really SMALL project that only does one useful thing! I'm not kidding you on how small it actually is, compared to numerous products and projects out there, the whole thing doesn't even compile to 1 MB!
IF I wasn't as stubborn as I am, I would have given up at this point! So really, being stubborn is really a virtue if you are a programmer, it not determination it's stubbornness.
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