Steve “Scotty” Scott, iDeveloper iDTV, @macdevnet
Scotty gave a great talk complete with loads of cartoons that I can’t remember here. I’ve just noted down the more serious bits…
However, the best slide was by far:
- programming is:
- 10% science
- 20% ingenuity
- 70% getting the two to work together
- embrace your pain and draw positives from it
- just because something has failed, doesn’t make you a failure
- unless you can own the failure, you can’t understand the problem and move on
- if you’re trying to learn what went wrong, make sure you’re looking at the real issues
- keep on asking why until you hit the real reason
- was it the people or the technology?
- you don’t have time not to do this
- when you next find a situation that’s negative, find a positive
- make sure you learn to understand what people are saying, rather than what you are hearing
- “developers get confused between Xmas & Halloween because DEC 25 = OCT 31”
- it is impossible to mentor yourself
- you can’t get out of your own assumptions
- you don’t need someone highly experienced to mentor you — you just have to explain yourself and get someone to ask, “how do you know that’s true?”
- often our thinking is shaped by a whole load of things that you haven’t let go
- process it and let it go
- we don’t tend to learn a lot from success
- that’s ok - we just need to do the same thing again
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