The Business Aware Programmer
By Abigail from Philadelphia.pm, NY.pm, AmsterdamX.pm
Date: Monday, 27 June 2011 17:15
Duration: 50 minutes
Target audience: Beginner
Language:
Tags: business. programming.
Programming in a business environment puts some unique requirements
on the programmer. While "best programming practises" get a lot of
attention, "business awareness" is often neglected.
In this talk, we'll take some lessons from a large, successful company
(market leader in its field) whose technical platform is driven by Perl,
and look what "business skills" they require from their programmers.
We will see that not everything that is considered "best programming
practise" always makes sense business wise. After all, while many
businesses have an IT department, and many people in the audience
work for an IT development, most businesses make their money selling goods
or services that aren't code. For a business, code usually is a means,
not a goal.
- Leanan
- Stephen Scaffidi (hercynium)
- Kirby Krueger
- Joe Kline (gizmo)
- gordon gvanamburg
- Jason Crome (CromeDome)
- Ricardo Signes (rjbs)
- Michael Edmonds
- jerry gay (particle)
- Andrew Grangaard (spazm)
- Todd Rinaldo (toddr)
- Michael Aquilina (aquilina)
- Yanick Champoux (Yanick)
- John Lightsey (J.D.)
- Ella Westerly (kyriel)
- William McKee (knowmad)
- Aran Deltac (bluefeet)
- Sam Vilain (mugwump)
- John Anderson (genehack)
- Nick Melnick (oZ)
- Mark A. Stratman (mstratman)
- James E Keenan (kid51)
- Jon Gentle (atrodo)
- Matt Nash (mnb)
- Matthew Dees
- Jacob Gelbman
- Daniel Sterling (HighBit)
- Michael Kröll (pepl)
- Mike Greb (mikegrb)
- Kevin Falcone (jibsheet)
- Jess Robinson (castaway)
- Mike Weisenborn
- Christoph Otto (cotto)
- Brad Oaks (bradoaks)
- Matt Phillips (mattp)
- John Ellyson
- Walt Mankowski (waltman)
- bryan abfalter
- Andrew Nelson
- Matthew Horsfall (alh)
- Paul Fenwick (pjf)
- Mark Jubenville (ioncache)
- Brendan Byrd (SineSwiper)
- Rocco Caputo (rcaputo)
- Tim Elkins