I was throwing out stuff from an old file cabinet in my office yesterday, and came across a few oldies but goodies that I hadn’t looked at in at least 10 years….IBM Enterprise Systems Architecture/370 Reference Summary, and INTEL Processors Memory Addressing Schemes are 2 references as well as handouts from a class an old supervisor taught way back when…..Windows – An Operating System from the perspective of a Programmer (also referred to as Developer or Software Engineer). Maybe I’m just not hooked into the right group anymore, but it seems to me that modern programmers just don’t get it….I recently sat through an incredibly moronic introduction to a popular CMS that reminded me of something I would have seen in 6th grade (if we had computers back then…). When I started out programming, I was expected to know a little bit about everything….now it seems that many developers only know how to do what they do and actually believe that it would be hard to teach other developers…..they claim their code is really, really complicated….c’mon guys. Do you think some of us never wrote complicated code? I miss the days of intelligent conversations about memory addressing and efficient coding….who cares whether we pick Drupal or DotNetNuke for our next CMS?
