Many of us went into the Palm OS area to protect themselves from the big corporate ‘tribal squabbles’ – but these squabbles eventually catch each and everyone of us. At school/university/foo, a group of people finds itself at the mercy of one or more instructors/some other kind of eeker squeeks – and here we have politics yet again.
Christopher Duncan is a consultant who teaches about beeing a programmer in a corporate world – his book is a collection of various topics a programmer needs. Lets see how it stacks up!
The career programmer starts off by looking at why programmers find themselves in political arenas thinking that they don’t need to fight while getting punched straight into the hide. You get a quick explanation on why suits are suits – most micro ISV’s probably already know this, but its still interesting to read!
The second part of the book deals with all kinds of interesting tidbits on how to create products while under time pressure. The chapters shown here are useful for everyone – you learn a few tricks for negotiating for design time, getting a test team and other problems and issues.
The third part looks at what you can do to have a safe and comfortable job – stay in a company, become a freelancer, a micro ISV or go into an entirely different area of the market.
The career programmer is very well-written, reading it is great fun. Paper quality is decent, my Parker 45X had no blotting problems whatsoever.
Overall, if you ever find yourself duking it out with a jerk who is more powerful than you are, you will want to have this book on your shelf and its contents in your mind. In squabbles, it usually boils down to who knows more/the better tricks of combat – the Career Programmer will definitely add a lot of ammunition to your equipment!
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