On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:38:07 +0100, Martijn Verburg
<martijnverb...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Dick,
I like your Courage analogy. My Diabolical Developer talk at Devoxx
was very much in the same vein, although hidden behind a wall of UK/NZ
irony and sarcasm. Thinking for yourself and not blindly trusting the
'Giants' in our industry is something I think many in our industry
could do more of.
As I say to my audience:
"Those who can't code, teach, those who can't teach write books, those
who don't finish their books, speak at conferences"
OK, that's a little untruthful, so really what I'm saying is:
"If I'm speaking at a number of conferences, writing a book & running
mentoring/training courses then how much of my time am I really
spending coding? So you should take what I say with a grain of salt,
instead maybe you should listen to the developer sitting next to you
who's hacking on some code on their laptop right now."
LOL and I agree with your general points. It's just the matter of defining
what "mentoring" means. It's one of the things I frequently do and it
includes writing code together with the customer, including testing it and
bringing it to production (I mean, it's not just "academic" code).
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