Next month, I’ll be presenting at Ruby Nation in my home away from home, Northern Virginia (I seem to spend almost as much time there as I do in Colorado). The presentation will be something like this:
What should the career path of a programmer be? How do you know what you’re aiming for? What defines success?
Many of us started out assuming the answers to these questions included slowly climbing a corporate promotion structure, ultimately becoming a people or project manager and no longer a programmer.
But we didn’t get into software development so we could fill out spreadsheets and attend status meetings. We got into software development because we were excited about it. We wanted to be creative and to build great things.
From the author of The Passionate Programmer, this session will walk through how a software developer can not only succeed but work toward building a remarkable career. We’ll draw examples from business, the arts, music, and sports. By the end of the presentation, we will have laid out a structured framework for radically succeeding in the software industry.
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May 24th, 2009 at 02:42 PM
I just finished Passionate Programmer (looks great on the kindle BTW), and wanted to thank you. It helped me realize how lucky, and not only how good things can be but how to get there. Great read, I plan on passing it around at work (made the ebook bundle worth every penny).
Also, retitling the book is HUGE, I would have never read “My Job Went to India”—and it would have been harder to suggest. But “The Passionate Programmer” is easy to market.