The Mythical Man Month

It's interesting to reflect how much and how little has changed in the past 30 years since The Mythical Man Month was written. The current chapter I just finished reading, regarding the idea that change is an inevitability resonated with me very clearly. The idea that the actual task of any programmer is to realize a vision for a program consumer and deliver to them a semblance of satisfaction rather than any physical program, that the program itself as a physical object only quantizes and represents the customer's desire for change was fascinating.

So not only is change inevitable its also a product one must become accustomed to delivering.

Progress with becoming a prolific rails developer is proceeding at a decent pace. At first its quite unnerving how much work is done in the background via ruby scripts, but at the same time that nervousness is offset by excitement for the power of the rails platform. There is an unbelievable amount of things automatically built into rails, not only interoperability but programming practices as well. DB migrations are akin to version control, the entire MVC architecture. Working on session handling and error correction at the present moment. Proving to be very exciting.