4/28/2023 0 Comments Learning on the job sucksIn fact, as software developers, we rarely have to use boring software ourselves.įrom a development perspective, however, the percentages are flipped. While the line between “boring” and “sexy” software can be blurred at times, sexy software represents the type of things that we use on a regular, day-to-day basis: SVN, Google Maps, Visual Studio, Firefox, etc. So, to reiterate, if you don’t create “boring” software for a living, then this article doesn’t fully apply. And by “boring”, I mean bills of lading processing, corporate fleet usage tracking, expense report creating, etc., all for internal use with lots and lots of company-specific requirements. In fact, let’s narrow this down even further, and consider only developers of “boring” software. And unlike accountants, who generally don’t rush home to balance the family budget, many of us actually do tinker with code for fun.īut for the sake of this article, let’s only consider the non-hobbyist developer, and the work that he does. Software development is a unique profession in that we can use our skills both on the job and for our hobby. Obviously, a lot of us – me included – enjoy writing code. Anyone who says that – let alone blogs it – should immediately be stripped of his software development license, have his keyboard taken away, and be permitted to only use only to CP/M on 8" floppies with a 1200 baud modem. And no matter how much you stretch it, programming is most definitely not sexy. It’s boring, it’s tedious, and it’s certainly not challenging.
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