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----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephenie Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 2:52 PM Subject: RE: Conversations... > where? > > > ~~ > Stephenie Hamilton > Macromedia Certified ColdFusion Professional > http://coldfusionwebs.com > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 2:30 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Conversations... > > > Is anyone else following the Hal Helm's, Steve Nelson > conversations series? > I think the series is really awesome, but I have to disagree with > a certain > point they are trying to make. Here's a snippet: > > --- > Steve: So, to be a really good programmer, you have to use both > halves of > your brain. > > Hal: I think so, yes. The fellow teaching the class, Roy > Williams, said that > while we all have preferences in the way we approach things, we > can train > ourselves to use the other half of our brain. I found that > fascinating. We > did some exercises where we picked a topic and wrote about it > using > left-brained techniques in one pass and then approached it again > using > right-brained techniques. The more we went into this, the more > parallels I > saw with programming. Fusedocs are how we make the transition > from the > holistic, big-picture, right-brained stuff to the logical, > left-brained > thinking that programming requires. And it's not as if some > people have what > it takes and others don't. We are born with a whole brain and we > get to > choose how to use it. > --- > > I'm seriously left brained so I may be biased, but I don't think > you have to > use both sides to be a good programmer. You need both sides to be > an good > project manager. Good PM's are very hard to find, that's why they > are so > well paid, and I don't disagree with that. A good PM is gold. > However, the > whole Fusebox hybrid pm/programmer model they are pushing seems a > little > unrealistic. I'm not going to implement Fusebox without being > given it as a > requirement...by a PM, or client. That's just my left brain way > of thinking, > I think my personal methodology is better (probably not true, but > I'm still > not changing... ). If the pre-existing code has a methodology, > I'll stick to > it, and I'm not going to change it. > > What's more, I think that the hybrid pm/programmer model is _not_ > a good > thing for the majority of programmers to try and follow. When my > pm comes to > me with a project, I demand requirements, not some really cool > idea that a > client baked up, and ran to the phone and called us about. When > that > happens, I just write up every possible requirement in an email > and shoot it > back to my pm, and we can decide what is realistic (and how much > to quote) > at that point, after conversations with the client. So to me, > requirements > are how I make the transition from idea, to code logic, and > comments are how > I let other people reading my code know what is going on. It's > not my job as > a programmer, nor should it be to decide whether this feature is > a good idea > or not, that would only detract from my ability to figure out the > logical > process to get us from point a to point b. Point's a and b cannot > be decided > by me, or it becomes _my_ project not the clients. Hence the > right side of > my brain is a detriment in relation to my job as a programmer. > > So my whole point is, that if I do my job, and the pm does > his/her job, then > my severe left brain bias is a strength, not a weakness as was > implied by > the article, because once I know what to do, the code is the easy > part. > > My .02 > > > _________________________________________________________________ > _____ > Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists > and provide more resources for the community. > http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm > > Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists > > > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
