End of software? No

What happened to software? Why is there so few creative software (2010)? Are we at the end of software? What are the forces which led to this situation, looking like a bit step backward to the epoch of non-programmable accounting machines? Is there a way out of this situation? Yes, and a very simple one: make good software. With invention. Developing models and abstractions. It is difficult but absolutely possible. It this re-start of software I wish to explore here in this blog. Welcome

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sábado, 6 de setembro de 2014

Computer Science Majors, Your Degree May Not Be As Valuable As You Think

Well, what this article show is that you can have programmers who will work as bricklayers. That's ok and enough to produce the bad spaghetti monolithic code of most commercial software. What about real developers. They should have, yes, a computer science degree. To be able to abstract concepts of the software they design. The keywork here is design, not build.

domingo, 6 de outubro de 2013

Who Are Software Developers?

Interesting survey of Software Developers: "In direct contrast to outdated stereotypes, developers tend to be family men"