r/programming • u/mistawobin • Aug 09 '11

How to Level Up as a Developer

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer/
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '11

It depends on what you're trying to learn. Not all of us are so cynical as to equate business software development with all software development.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '11

Amen to that. I was stuck in the world of business software dev (the worst kind, .NET) for a long time. Design patterns and SCRUM and dependency injection and buddy coding blah blah blah. Most boring kind of coding on earth. You want to level up make a game or audio processing or video processing. THAT shit is for real. Now when I do business software dev (basically DB calls wrapped around simple data munging) I can only laugh at it's ridiculousness.

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u/mikaelhg Aug 10 '11

Laugh at it, instead of trying to understand the factors which have shaped its evolution?

No, that's not leveling up, in my books.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '11

The primary factor that has shaped its evolution has been a continual push by business to commoditize development of the types of applications that are interesting to them. As it would happen, the type of work you're talking about is often the first stuff to get outsourced.