dandr.org » Work http://dandr.org Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:13:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Software plumbing. http://dandr.org/2008/11/wasting-time/ http://dandr.org/2008/11/wasting-time/#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:08:16 +0000 Dave Nice http://dandr.org/wp/?p=4 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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