Gerade hab ich den Artikel von Guy Kawasaki gelesen: “Why Smart People Do Dumb Things” (Like Not Backup Their Hard Disk). Wenn ich mal das ganze Gedöns beiseite lasse (wie: Akzeptiere dich und andere, hab Humor und so), so finde ich doch die abschließende Charakterisierung eines “erwachsenen” Verhaltens ganz spannend: Begrüsse die Arbeit (“Welcome Work”).
Ich habe es schon häufiger erlebt, wie vermeindliche Talente zu ineffektiv arbeiten, weil sie nur die spannenden Seiten unseres Berufes sehen. Programmieren, coden, architekten, hacken, oder wie man es auch immer nennen mag, macht einfach Spaß. Etwas wachsen lassen ist immer wieder riesig. Aber es gibt auch ekliges Debuggen, mieser (hoffentlich fremder) Code, Papierkram, die Raumpolizei, das Beschaffungswesen (kurz: der CFO), Routinearbeiten, inkompetente Manager. Auch diese gehören zu unserem Beruf. Und machen diesen, wenn man mal genau hinschaut, doch immer wieder spannend. Ohne geht es nicht.
So ist halt das Leben.
arbeit, blogger, Profession
Currently, I am investigating new programming languages. I do this several times a year. Sometimes I stumble over the same languages, sometime I discover something new. The same for now.
Everything started with reading the JBoss Administration Manual. I wanted to try out some of the Java classes but I was too lazy to use the compiler. Hmm, there are several languages for the Java VM. Since I am quite familiar in Python (in my previous company we developed the whole new product in Python) I took a look at JPython. I dropped it fast, because I do not want to un-learn Python 2.4 and to move back to 2.1.
BeanShell is the next candidate. Quite nice. Several years ago, I used it in my project. It is still useful for fast experiments and prototypes. However, I would use it only to glue code. Developing a whole product just with BeanShell would probably too hefty.
Now I am trying out Nice. I heard about it, now it’s time to give it a try. I like the automatic type inference. Java’s gibberish is boring me. I want to have a DWIM language. It should not automatically solve my problem, but i should not stand in my way. The problem with Nice is its interpreter. It does not have one. You are locked in the edit-compile-run cylce. Not Nice.
The other programming language I currently learn is Ruby. But that’s another post.
Profession, programmieren, programmiersprachen
