Finally I watched Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror fame talk about what a lot of other people have said and why you should blog. I completely agreed with everything Jeff said, except for a tiny bit of hypocrisy he didn't fess up to until asked.
See, Jeff's talk was obviously changed up to compliment mine. He basically said what I said, that if you want to do software go work for a software company. Don't go work for a company that doesn't do software to make money. They won't respect you.
That's true.
He also talked about how blogging is something all programmers should do. Being able to write and influence people is important since that's how you get your ideas across. Nobody reads code but they do read English.
Also true.
However, then someone asked Jeff what he does, and he said he works for a .NET consultancy doing software for other people.
Sorry Jeff, that's not a software company. A software company actually sells software to people. People buy the actual software from you and if they don't your company fails. Jeff basically works for a consultancy that builds software for other people to sell. While he's probably the money maker, I'm betting that he's really not on the same level as his peers at a company like Microsoft.
sounds to me like his original comment meant jobs where software development is not the money maker (for example a bank or whatever). A software consulting firm is still making money with software, that is, the developers are it's main asset.
Gotta go with tichy's response here. If he's a consultant, he's working for a company that should, theoretically, treat their programmers even better than a software company should, since they are the product.
As a consultant, it also speaks volumes about the second point: Being able to write and influence people is important since that's how you get your ideas across.
I'm not seeing how his stance is necessarily hypocritical.
http://www.zedshaw.com/conferences/cusec2008.html
Finally I watched Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror fame talk about what a lot of other people have said and why you should blog. I completely agreed with everything Jeff said, except for a tiny bit of hypocrisy he didn't fess up to until asked.
See, Jeff's talk was obviously changed up to compliment mine. He basically said what I said, that if you want to do software go work for a software company. Don't go work for a company that doesn't do software to make money. They won't respect you.
That's true.
He also talked about how blogging is something all programmers should do. Being able to write and influence people is important since that's how you get your ideas across. Nobody reads code but they do read English.
Also true.
However, then someone asked Jeff what he does, and he said he works for a .NET consultancy doing software for other people.
Sorry Jeff, that's not a software company. A software company actually sells software to people. People buy the actual software from you and if they don't your company fails. Jeff basically works for a consultancy that builds software for other people to sell. While he's probably the money maker, I'm betting that he's really not on the same level as his peers at a company like Microsoft.