11 Nov 08 Software plumbing.
After randomly surfing from twitter to blogs, I enjoyed reading one of Matt B’s posts about designing a system to deal with lots of text messages at the BBC. Linking different software components and sources together like he described is something that really interests me. I don’t think I’m hugely good at it, but there’s something about that kind of relatively large-scale software plumbing that draws me in.
I think the kind of work I do tends to involve more small-scale nitty gritty like UIs – that doesn’t interest me nearly as much. There are some quite prominent elements of generic plumbing in the product I’m working on at the moment which I find quite stimulating, but they’re rather ruined by the need to write horrible code to produce a GUI 
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