Chapter 10The Boss

You’ve been called to your boss’s office for a somewhat regular status meeting. It goes normally. She talks, you listen. You talk, she checks her BlackBerry. You talk about the projects you have been working on and the projects you have finished. Once you’re done with that, you have the opportunity to tell her about your special baby.

You’ve been working on an automation engine that can introspect a database, build a CRUD application, and style it with a company-branded look and feel. After it is built, you can spend a little time tweaking the model and tweaking the UI to perfect your application. It’s simple scaffolding, but it’s awesome.

You tell your boss about it. She doesn’t seem to get it. She just asks how much time ...

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