Here’s some linkage to keep you busy…
ActiveMerchant - Shopify Credit Card processing library for Ruby on Rails
Coding Horror talks about becoming a real developer… SO TRUE!
Voice Command 1.6 for Windows Mobile 5
A new version of Mint - freaking sweet stuff… love the dashboard widget
That’s all I got for today… have fun kids.
I’m not sure I agree with this quote from Atwood:
“From what I’ve seen, there’s just no crossing the skill chasm as a software developer. You’ve either got it, or you don’t. No amount of putting your nose to the grindstone will change that.”
Hrm… nine years ago I was a green, inexperienced, and arguably low-skilled developer. I wrote a lot of bad code. For years I had no mentor and had no idea what I was doing right or wrong. I put it on myself to get better. I tried to get as much experience as possible.
Is there a difference between my experience and what Atwood is saying? Did I always have the talent and chose to nuture it? Or did I have no talent, and built it up over time? I really have no idea, but I know for a fact that without experience I wouldn’t have improved.
I should add though that I know that Atwood’s point wasn’t whether developers either “have it” or “don’t have it”. He was just using that as a setup to his main point. Just wanted to clarify :) His setup just struck a chord with me though and I had to speak up.