Comments on: Synthesizers http://blog.danmcweeney.com/50 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:57:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: dan http://blog.danmcweeney.com/50/comment-page-1#comment-5128 dan Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:33:35 +0000 http://blog.danmcweeney.com/50#comment-5128 @jeff waugh: Indeed, i've corrected the spelling errors thanks! Ah, Crowd Sourced proof-reading nice. @Thomas: It also extends a bit further as with your Java example if you update the Java file object will Sun take that change and re-incorporate it? The part of the community thing is knowing what exists beyond just JavaDoc -- what OSS components can you use and benefit from. @jeff waugh: Indeed, i’ve corrected the spelling errors thanks! Ah, Crowd Sourced proof-reading nice.

@Thomas: It also extends a bit further as with your Java example if you update the Java file object will Sun take that change and re-incorporate it? The part of the community thing is knowing what exists beyond just JavaDoc — what OSS components can you use and benefit from.

]]> By: Thomas http://blog.danmcweeney.com/50/comment-page-1#comment-5125 Thomas Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:57:46 +0000 http://blog.danmcweeney.com/50#comment-5125 Great post. While I was reading it I thought about the term API a lot. Basically if you want to move and develop really fast you have to dip into the already existing components. This is nothing new. Without a proper API people would still write their own file objects in Java. But when you shift over and become more of an application developer instead of a language XY developer you suddenly cannot know all the different APIs out there. This is the point when your community argument starts to shine. Without the community a developer cannot find or learn these different APIs as fast as he needs to. It will be interesting to see how the Universities will have to change their courses in order to produce these new kind of developers. Great post. While I was reading it I thought about the term API a lot. Basically if you want to move and develop really fast you have to dip into the already existing components. This is nothing new. Without a proper API people would still write their own file objects in Java. But when you shift over and become more of an application developer instead of a language XY developer you suddenly cannot know all the different APIs out there. This is the point when your community argument starts to shine. Without the community a developer cannot find or learn these different APIs as fast as he needs to.

It will be interesting to see how the Universities will have to change their courses in order to produce these new kind of developers.

]]> By: Jeff Waugh http://blog.danmcweeney.com/50/comment-page-1#comment-5122 Jeff Waugh Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:56:52 +0000 http://blog.danmcweeney.com/50#comment-5122 When you write "tenant", do you mean "tenet"? When you write “tenant”, do you mean “tenet”?

]]> By: James Governor’s Monkchips » links for 2007-10-24 http://blog.danmcweeney.com/50/comment-page-1#comment-5102 James Governor’s Monkchips » links for 2007-10-24 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:28:40 +0000 http://blog.danmcweeney.com/50#comment-5102 [...] computers should be less friendly » Blog Archive » Synthesizers Great post. I don’t know what to call these people frankly- evangelist builders, or what? Dan suggest Synthesizers which seems to work. (tags: developers evangelists) [...] [...] computers should be less friendly » Blog Archive » Synthesizers Great post. I don’t know what to call these people frankly- evangelist builders, or what? Dan suggest Synthesizers which seems to work. (tags: developers evangelists) [...]

]]> By: dan http://blog.danmcweeney.com/50/comment-page-1#comment-5041 dan Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:36:28 +0000 http://blog.danmcweeney.com/50#comment-5041 @thomas otter: Thanks, it seems to me that this should be treated like <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#hacker_already" rel="nofollow">"hacker"</a> See third question. @phil jones: Steve has certainly been an influence on me, going to read the Jon Udell post now, thanks for the link! @thomas otter: Thanks, it seems to me that this should be treated like “hacker” See third question.

@phil jones: Steve has certainly been an influence on me, going to read the Jon Udell post now, thanks for the link!

]]> By: phil jones http://blog.danmcweeney.com/50/comment-page-1#comment-5040 phil jones Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:28:37 +0000 http://blog.danmcweeney.com/50#comment-5040 Nice post. Seems to me that the existence of the web is pushing us all (with greater or lesser degrees of success) to aspire to being synthesizers. Your communication point also reminds me of some things Jon Udell has been saying, and maybe Steve Yegge. ( Some links here : http://www.nooranch.com/synaesmedia/wiki/wiki.cgi?ProgrammersAndWriters ) Nice post.

Seems to me that the existence of the web is pushing us all (with greater or lesser degrees of success) to aspire to being synthesizers.

Your communication point also reminds me of some things Jon Udell has been saying, and maybe Steve Yegge. ( Some links here : http://www.nooranch.com/synaesmedia/wiki/wiki.cgi?ProgrammersAndWriters )

]]> By: Thomas Otter http://blog.danmcweeney.com/50/comment-page-1#comment-5038 Thomas Otter Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:45:13 +0000 http://blog.danmcweeney.com/50#comment-5038 great post, except for the "but I'm just a programmer line." I sense a mix of irony and chip... great post, except for the “but I’m just a programmer line.”
I sense a mix of irony and chip…

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