The Power of Programming

Deep down, I'm still the same programmer that I was when I was sixteen years old. Recently I've started to realize how boring it can be to be a manager. I was a manager way too long. It feels powerful at first, but after a while you realize all you really have to do is keep track of the project plan. It's basically like the inventory work, like of a warehouse guy, just instead of boxes you have features. If you're good, you remember all the boxes, where they are, where they ought to be, and you're sole job is to keep them organized. The other thing you have to organize is the people. They call them 'resources' in manager lingo, not people. And we're not even ashamed of that anymore! I guess when you just start to be a manager you're kind of concerned that someone would be offended if he'd know your'e calling him a 'resource' but after a while it gets to you. So you organize the features, and the resources, and if something goes bad, you can replace one feature with another or one resource with another or if you're really creative you can exchange some resource for a feature. How brilliant.


but coding, man, something else. Yes, you have tricks, definetely you do after a while, but the real nice thing is that actually sometimes tricks won't save you. You'll just have to be creative and invent some class or data structure that would do the trick in this very own particular place. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, I guess you won't be visiting my blog too often in the future.


Am I singing here for coding? for sure. because this profession deserves more fame. Should be all out in the arts. I'll wait for that, while show biz continues to make movies about show biz and some other brilliant professions.