Book Review of “The Passionate Programmer”
For developers that are really interested in steering their IT career instead of having their career steered for them, “The Passionate Programmer” is a must have. This book is a revision of My Job went to India. While some of it is relevant information on how to compete in a global development market, it is also talks about how to really make yourself a valuable asset to your organization. One of the more interesting ideas in the book is to not count on your technical skillsets to make yourself valuable but to start knowing your business. In other words, your business does not care if you are love working with Python or PHP but rather can you get the job done and do you know enough about your business domain. Seems extremely trite but for techies, it takes a while to get used to the idea. You can get this book at pragprog.com. Hope it raises your level of thinking about your tech career as it did mine.
