I have been so caught up with the corporate world of managing things, achieving results and deliverables that I forgot I used to like to learn new things. That I once took pride in the fact that I was near the ideal where if I knew something, I could explain it to my grandmother or a kid.
Lots of people, including myself, think that building an application is like gluing different parts together, without thinking about form, just based on function. And indeed that is how it is promoted today in the software applications world. This approach does indeed work towards delivering results in the form of applications running in today's world.
But I am beginning to realize the difference between a mason and a sculptor. When a sculptor build a sculpture, he has the final form in his mind. It is only he who decides the design and only he who delivers it. And then it becomes a thing of beauty to behold. A thing which lasts for generations. No wonder application architects are respected so highly (I wonder how much they are paid in monetary terms).
Lots of people, including myself, think that building an application is like gluing different parts together, without thinking about form, just based on function. And indeed that is how it is promoted today in the software applications world. This approach does indeed work towards delivering results in the form of applications running in today's world.
But I am beginning to realize the difference between a mason and a sculptor. When a sculptor build a sculpture, he has the final form in his mind. It is only he who decides the design and only he who delivers it. And then it becomes a thing of beauty to behold. A thing which lasts for generations. No wonder application architects are respected so highly (I wonder how much they are paid in monetary terms).
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what brought about the sudden introspective?
Hmm... I develop applications, and for that I have a framework. There is a certain part of this development, where the we use an international standard DataObject for development. The framework delivers it to us so that if we confine ourselves to only this version of development we need not learn anything more about it, only realization of its existence is enough.
But that is not the way I worked. I usually knew the history and possibilities of everything I worked upon. Maybe not the whole thing, but at least so much so as to realize where else such a thing can be used.
Anyways, complicated explanations aside, I think I was letting my standards of learning slide in a bid to up the short-term performance levels and results.
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