“Whatever happened to programming”
I came across a wonderful blog post entitled “Whatever happened to programming”, with a second part here.
I think it tackles a very important question, specifically discussing how a lot of the work nowadays is spent putting libraries together and making them work, which doesn’t make the whole programming experience very fun and it also significantly affects “the flow”. The flow is something I would like to write about some more in the future, because it’s very important for me and I can’t seem to get it anymore in a lot of the work I do. I used to think it was just me, but now I’m starting to wonder if this isn’t perhaps a much bigger issue.
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Last summer when I worked at Adobe Romania we had to make a small framework for a demo. We ended up using Zend to display 2-3 pages. I was against it from the start and promoted the idea to write our own (very) little framework than learn how to use a big one like Zend. (I knew, but the rest of the guys in the team didn’t).
Of course it was overkill, but I liked the comment my mentor said to me “hehe, you know what they say, you ain’t a real PHP programmer until you wrote your own MVC framework from scratch!”