*} CodeBloke

It’s my deepest belief that programming, more than any other engineering-related industry starts now promoting art.

By definition (very narrow and therefore accurate) art is any action undertaken deliberately to create a new quality or give some new meaning to the existing ones (existing qualities).

So, the art is not about the media, not about the ‘product’ and the result may not even be noticed by a broader audience… hehehe… Sounds familiar?

Yes, development is an art. Martial art to be strict.

So, by running this blog I hereby declare war to all rigid, old-school minds.

Yes, developers must provide repetitive, high quality code.

Yes, they need to use patterns and document solutions they deliver in order to integrate them with the company operations (or user’s needs), but the primary task of each an every developer is to develop himself. By development of the work culture in the first place and the armoury of the weapons to use.

So, we’re all a kind of samurais Constantly polishing blade and practicing for the purpose of victory of failure, which will never be as important as the act and art of development process itself.

But it’s not the blade that makes a samurai and there is no framework or programming methodology that makes a developer.

Like a fighter uses bare hands to attack or defend we need to be able to abstract ourselves from comfort of reusability and only then we can reach what people expect us to do.

We come to bring a real change, not a convergence or parameterization of existing tools…

Credo