It’s not just a question of conquering a summit previously
unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.
Gustav Mahler, musician and composer
Do you have training and achievement certificates hanging around your cubicle? Back when Dave had
his very own cube and even less experience than he does now, he
conspicuously piled a stack of certificates near his desk. The pile
featured a Brainbench “master” certification in Perl and grew to include
certificates proving that he had completed various multiday trainings in
C, J2EE, Vignette, and ATG Dynamo. This small stack of pseudoparchment
reassured him (and his organization) that he knew what he was doing. He
had been “trained.”
Meanwhile, Dave had started to branch out and connect with the
broader developer community through http://perlmonks.org and the
comp.lang.perl.* newsgroups. It was in these groups that he discovered
some exceptional Perl hackers. The hackers’ expertise was daunting,
particularly because Dave could see that they were still learning, and
fast. It began to dawn on him that he had barely scratched the surface of
what it meant to be a great software developer. Over the following months,
his pile of training certificates slowly disappeared beneath a larger pile
of scratch paper and printouts of book drafts and tutorials.
Through his observations and interactions with a few of ...
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