At this month’s meeting for my Java(TM) user group, we had a presentation from the CEO of Blue Titan Software, a leading company in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). In the presentation he and his associate insisted that the craftsmanship aspect of software development was a thing of the past, replaced by SOA based solutions. It was an impressive presentation, with impressive customer names being dropped and everything.

If things do ever get to that point, then I may have to find a new profession.

And I think they’re full of it. If anything, SOA is a concept that calls for master craftsmanship, and it’s not something they have a monopoly on.

On a separate note, using OS X to attempt to redeem the time was frustrating compared to when I had native Debian running. Just changing my wireless settings was a hopping around through settings panels, a browser, back to settings, back to browser; all of it happens in a shell script when I’m in Debian. Grrr…