The Story of False Supremacy - Or simply "Stop hating"

1. #undef IS_KING
The Story of False Supremacy
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Cristi Bârlãădeanu, on 27th of November 2010

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Web Developer

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Making things happen

4. Once upon a time
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The Good The Bad

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The Good The Bad
The Others

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The Hero The Villain

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The Hero The Villain

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The Hero The Villain

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We are brought up believing we
need to choose sides.
And we always do.
Often in the name of “Good”.
Of “Better”.

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Side note: I had no idea how hard
it is to find decent pictures called
“snow white” or “little red riding
hood” on Google Images.
No, really.

12. The war-game of
programming
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Born in the middle of combat

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Remember?

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The Good? The Bad?

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The Bad? The Good?
Vice-versa?

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26. Cristi Bârlãădeanu, <NovWeb /> ’10
Developing a career in writing
software was choice-driven. The
diversity of options on each step
forced everything into the “win
some, lose some” paradigm.
“Are you with us or against us?”

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Back to our wars

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Each designated army had the
same type of troops:

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Each designated army had the
same type of troops:
The Veteran

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The Evangelist

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The Evangelist
The Fundamentalist

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Side quiz: In which category
would include Laurian Gridinoc?

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Side quiz: In which category
would you include Laurian
Gridinoc?
That’s right, all of the above.

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Back to the forth soldier type…

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The Omnipresent
Goofy(s)

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The “new recruit” that:
• Just knows for who to woo and for who to boo;
• Is 100% convinced that his path is the right
one towards “the light”;
• Doesn’t really understand the reasons, but can
reproduce all the sentences;
• Is one tough Jedi in a world of Padawans;
• His new weapon can beat anything else;
• Uses only 10% of “the power” of the tool.

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Forums
Blogs
Conferences

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The good news
Nowadays there are so many different
camps that fighting 1 vs. 1 is no fun
anymore.
The bad news…

39. Changing the battlefield
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Entering the industry changes
the perspective from individual
to collective, team-based.
The disputes shifted from raw
technologies to paradigms,
methodologies, ways to do it
more than tools to be used.

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Meeting new enemies

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The Developer The Project Manager

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Agile Waterfall

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Reporting Shipping
Efficiency

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The cycle of accessories brought to work

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Any other “fights” to be picked?

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Any other “fights” to be picked?
Sure. The only one that really matters.

48. Colleagues, clients,
products, users.
And you.
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You are your biggest enemy

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You’re not fighting your
colleagues, although many times it
surely does look like it.
You’re not fighting your clients,
despite the much desired blood on
your hands after teleconferences.

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You just need to find the most
suitable way for you to approach
the project, ship it and be satisfied
with the results. It’s that simple.
There is no perfect path, no magic
tools and for sure David Blaine
doesn’t work for you.

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Focus on workflow, not on technology

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Before getting to work be sure you
have the complete specifications
of your project.
Spend all the time you need to
develop the necessary documents
for you and your team. Hopefully
you’ll have something left for
actual implementation.

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Try to see first which is the best
tool for the job. Don’t always go for
the beloved technology or
framework.
Don’t reinvent the wheel. It was
reinvented billions of times.
Please, leave the wheel alone.

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Design components for reusability.
Try to break your work in bits and
pieces that you can use in other
projects or are easy to alter.
Think of it as if you have a lot of
puzzles and each of them has a sun
and some clouds. And mandatory a
puppy.

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Usually stuff needs maintenance.
Yours will need it too, most
probably. Make your life easier
developing the product while
having maintenance in mind.

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Push new stuff in. Research, read,
learn. Try to convince your clients
to look towards the future, but
don’t ever forget that the real
clients are your client’s clients.

58. The King
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59. Cristi Bârlãădeanu, <NovWeb /> ’10
Tech is King.
Content is King.
End-user is King.
User experience is King.
Customer is King.
Who is actually the King?

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Maybe Elvis
Maybe Michael

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The Web is a reinvented democracy.

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#undef IS_KING

63. Questions?
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64. Thank you!
Cristi Bârlãădeanu, <NovWeb /> ’10
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