Things to remember about programming

It's been a year since I left my previous job and everyday there are so many lessons I learn. I wanted to take the time to write about each of them, but they come in faster then I can type. Remember in the programming world, it is one thing to write about software, it is a whole other to write software.

The more write about software, the more I feel I need to use software before I write. But the more I use software the less time I have to write about the things I learn in software.

So let me make a quick attempt to give you a glimpse of what goes through my mind these days:

• Nothing goes as planed.
• The code you didn't test will fail.
• The code you tested will fail.
• There will be a bug you didn't think of.
• It works except when the user does this totally normal thing.
• You build an app for account needs, they use it as a word processor.
• What you think is clever, isn't.
• The meaning you associate with a color is not the same someone else associates with it.
• MVC doesn't work for every web projects.
• The latest and brightest is rarely the best.
• There is someone building something bigger and better than yours.
• When you have no money coming in, you go broke.
• If you thought about it, someone else also did.
• You are not as unique as you think you are.
• It is supposed to be fun after all.

There, now that I have some of them written down, expect to see me elaborate on each of those in the near future.