Why you should pay developers to learn
A true story We were having a meeting with a customer and he had just presented a project idea. He wanted us to give him a draft system architecture, supporting his project technical requirements. At one point, I was telling him that incremental development requires architecture evolution as well. When I said that finding the right architecture is also a learning process, he cut me off short of the following sentence: Do you expect me to pay you to learn? To save the day, I told him I was referring to the… Read More
Effective learning techniques for software craftsmen
Go in one ear and out the other Programming languages, operating systems, SQL, NoSQL, web frameworks, Spring, Java EE, HTML, JavaScript, Agile methodologies, you name it. A developer must know a ridiculous amount of things to become effective. There’s no wonder many of us are struggling to keep pace with the ever-changing programming landscape. When you’re a kid, doing stuff is the most natural way of learning, but then you go to school and you’re brainwashed into thinking that reading is the only way of studying. Become an active learner Ever since… Read More
