Felipe Gaucho's Blog

If you can't code, retire.

Other interesting points of the fun lunch was about usability, development tools, Java language outlook and other minor social behavior that drives our profession. Observing the quiet room listening the speakers I felt a reliever feeling about the knowledge prevalence in the era of management and marketing.

At the end, four top notch professionals speaking frankly about their expectations, actually the expectations shared by the most part of nowadays software engineers - a better software world through better tools, job and technology evolution.

If you are not here, a tip: bet here next year - it is the most amazing experience a Java developer can have in this life. See you in 5 minutes at the next door session.

Comments

• Perish the thought that we should allow people who are managers, architects or other key decision makers to come from a technical background! They must remain in ignorance at all costs and get their 'facts' from their golfing buddies only.

  Posted by: rickcarson on May 08, 2007 at 04:33 PM

• of course. It's a well known fact in management that people who are trained in technical skills can't be good managers. They might feel sympathy for their slaves, might even have empathy towards them, which would cloud their judgement when it comes to shooting down budget requests and slashing timetables to something marketing can live with.

  Posted by: jwenting on May 08, 2007 at 10:11 PM

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