Dont forget to smell the roses
I am going to start off with a post that, well isn’t quite going to be in the spirit of what this blog is generally going to be focused on.
We as developers or technologists in the DotNet space (or others) can be weighed down with the demands to keep up with the latest advances in our arena. The drivers for keeping up often stem from a ‘perceived need’ however sometimes they are also grounded in real concerns, and I am now beginning to understand the difference. We also tend to give tech alone too much importance in how we think and behave, something that Udi really made more concrete for me recently. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I am now spending four weeks of annual leave getting over an illness, rather than frolicking through the fields and I can put it squarely at the feet of poor lifestyle. The lifestyle I speak of is one that developers will recognise and so I take this opportunity to begin this blog by saying, “don’t forget to smell the roses!”. Learning should be a life long goal but remember to breathe & spend the time required to keep your engine tuned and running clean fuel (metaphorically speaking).
As far as future posts go, my plan is to speak from time to time about the pressures of keeping on top of the tech explosion coming out of Microsoft and trying to make sense of a lot of it, with respect to how it affects the life of developers, architects and even CIO and CTO’s. I am also going to give fair amount of attention to the elements of tech & design that I am finding useful (and distracting and useless) in running a custom development shop.
